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             Prohibited
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Silkscreen print on Paper
gold leaf paint and ink on archival paper 
40 X 100 CM
Mostly Visible, Group Exhibition, Jeddah, KSA
2013


This work discusses the stereotypical image of the Islamic form, which without any thought has become a symbol of an Islamic state, thus making the form of Islamic art and the Arab cheek bearing one style, one form. 

I raised this work with two questions. If we use the style of decoration that was used in Islamic arts and in the same way of writing, does this make people take the concept of Islamic art to its contemporary point without judging it at first glance that it is a religious text, its rule, or an honorable hadith? 

I always face this problem in my work about the shape of Arabic calligraphy, which took on a single character among people. When they see Arabic calligraphy and decoration, the first thing that comes to them is that it is a religious text







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