Filed under: Arab Culture in the Diaspora, Exhibitions, National Council Days | Tags: al-araby magazine, arts and letters, Exhibition, funoon gallery, national council for culture
as soon as i walked into the hall i saw my girls to the left. this does them so much more justice than being cooped up at home!
What an exhilarating afternoon. I was like a starstruck fan waddling through Al-Funoon Gallery taking photos of artists I knew and others I suspected were! To me personally, The Arab Culture in the Diaspora exhibition wasn’t just about these quite accomplished artists’ works being exhibited here in Kuwait, but that my work was among theirs. I wasn’t quite prepared for the sort of elation I would feel being in the same room (two rooms actually; the Ahmed Al-Adwany hall was also utilized) as all these great minds. And then there was the art. After the initial shell shock of taking in the rich crowd of artists, writers, musicians and lovers of all things cultural, my eyes fell on the works and I remembered that this was the reason why I was there. In this post, I’d like to share some my favorites with you. I do hope you take a visit to the gallery to see the show for yourself.
The exhibition will be up today and tomorrow. (more…)
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Filed under: National Council Days, Notes & Doodles | Tags: architecture, doodles, Kuwait, national council, notes
Filed under: National Council Days, Notes & Doodles | Tags: boggle, council, doodles, Kuwait, national, notes
Filed under: National Council Days, Notes & Doodles | Tags: arts, doodles, Kuwait, letters, national council, notes
Filed under: National Council Days, Notes & Doodles | Tags: arts, boggle, culture, doodles, Kuwait, letters, national council, notes
i love writing for the sake of writing sometimes. when i was six or seven i loved writing the number 8. in math, i would always be wishing that the answer was 8 so that i could write it. my mom got me a giant marker and i remember just writing 8's on any surface i was allowed to write on
I don’t remember the exact dates but for a period of around three years (1997-2000) I was employed at the National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters. I started out quite gung-ho until about a year into my job when I discovered that my work there was redundant. I think two other people were assigned to do the same thing and I was just another office accessory.
I had my own room so I could more or less do whatever I liked, and I liked drawing and writing. My journalist friend, Fatma Al-Saffar knew I had a penchant for sketchbooks so she used to bring me these wonderful writing tablets from the newspaper she was working for at the time. I also had, believe it or not, a game of boggle in my desk and I used to play it all the time. As much as I enjoyed finding and scribbling down the words, I found the visual quite pleasing as well. So these are some pages from one of the writing pads. (more…)
