Visual Dhikr™
returning to remembrance

Yes! Sami Yusuf is back in the UK with his most ambitious concert to date! Sami Yusuf Live at Wembley Arena is going to be an amazing event.

Not only is Sami Yusuf performing on Sunday 21st October 2007, but he'll be joined by a host of renowned performers from around the world including World renowned Indian composer AR Rahman, Outlandish, Kareem Salama, The Sound of Reason and Hamza Robertson.

With a superb stage set design and the best audio system in London, we think you'll remember this night forever.

British Muslims to stage 'Live 8' concert for Darfur

Sami Yusuf.com

Turkish designer Atil Kutoglu says he expects to spark a "small revolution" with the look he is creating for Turkey's expected future first lady.

The Vienna-based couturier has been asked to come up with a new wardrobe for Hayrunisa Gul, wife of presidential candidate Abdullah Gul.

(I'm sure this will get the - intolerant - secular party's blood boiling)

full article

Competition (FEMYSO)

" What does Europe mean to you ? "
is a competition for young artists from the 4 corners of Europe. Sing, film, paint or write to express your will and desire to create a multidimensional European identity. Your creative artistic expression should reflect universal values that FEMYSO seeks to represent.

Belgium, Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, Sweden, Macedonia, Ukraine, Danmark, Spain, Ireland, Portugal, Netherlands, Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Albania, Poland.

In 5 fields
Music • Literature • Film •Tajweed • Viusal Arts

The competition is open from 15 April to 15 October and invites artists aged between 15-30, non-professional or semi-professional, to submit their work.

•The names of the canditates will be revealed on 20 October 2007
•Prize in each category.
•The final competition will be organised in Brussels on 4, 5 & 6 November 2007 when a jury of professionals will choose the winners for each category.

http://www.expressyourcreativity.org/

I simply love the work of Marian, she isnt Muslim nor religious (Athiest) but she has talent. She takes influence from calligraphy and even Islamic art see this cover for Wallpaper, simply beautiful.

It is similar to more recent works I have been doing myself, so its great to know others (who are better!) that do similar work.

Visit her site

In a recent exhibition on Ottoman culture held in Amsterdam’s Nieuwe Kerk was an unimpressive-looking little 18th-century book, a printed version of a manuscript produced 150 years earlier. Usually a manuscript is more rare than a printed work, but in this case the cultural and historical importance of the printed book surpassed that of the manuscript from which it derived: This was one of the first books printed in the Middle East in an Arabic typeface. The language was Ottoman Turkish.

read more

Visual Dhikr t-shirts are almost ready and they will available via the Islamic Design House (.com). Expected mid next month, stay tuned and get your mits on them before they run out. We have tees for both brothers and sisters. No cheese, just sophisticated cool.

For now, they have a great new Jilbab collection from Silk Route, so sisters get into gear with new Islamic fashion.

Museum With No Frontiers (MWNF) is an organisation whose ground-breaking and visionary programme aims to establish a vast trans-national museum that presents works of art, architecture and archaeology in the context in which they were created. Inspired by the principle of organising exhibitions without moving the works of art, MWNF is creating through modern technology an exciting new dimension to museums. The visitor is invited to experience a museum not only as a place to admire artefacts on display but also as a gateway to related works of art in other museums, relevant archaeological sites and monuments as well as to thematic visits. www.discoverislamicart.org