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Shangri La (Doris Duke)
The Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design is housed in the former home of Doris Duke near Diamond Head just outside Honolulu, Hawaii. It is now owned and operated as a public museum of the arts and cultures of the Islamic world by the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art (DDFIA). Guided tours depart from the Honolulu Museum of Art, which operates the tours in co-operation with DDFIA. Construction of Shangri La took place from 1936 to 1938, after Doris Duke's 1935 honeymoon which took her through the Islamic world. For nearly 60 years, Duke commissioned and collected artworks for the space, eventually forming a collection of over 4,000 objects. The structure was designed by Marion Sims Wyeth. An artistic reflection of the construction of Shangri La can be found in Kiana Davenport's novel ''Song of the Exile''. The building was opened to the public as a museum, the Shangri La Museum for Islamic Art, Design & Culture, in 2002. Collections and exhibitions The mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia. Modern humans arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa no later than 55,000 years ago., "Y-Chromosome and Mt-DNA data support the colonization of South Asia by modern humans originating in Africa. ... Coalescence dates for most non-European populations average to between 73–55 ka.", "Modern human beings—''Homo sapiens''—originated in Africa. Then, int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zahra Noorbakhsh
Zahra Noorbakhsh (born June 11, 1980) is an Iranian-American comedian, writer, actor and co-host of the ''#GoodMuslimBadMuslim'' podcast. ''The New Yorker'' called her one-woman show ''All Atheists Are Muslim'' a highlight of the New York International Fringe Festival. She is a contributor to the ''New York Times'' featured anthology ''Love Inshallah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women'', with a monthly column entitled, "My Infidel Husband". Noorbakhsh was a featured comic at the first-ever Muslim Funny Fest in New York City. Career Noorbakhsh graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Theatre & Performance Studies in 2006. Though she began as a stand-up comic, her love of impressions, characters and storytelling drew her into the world of theater and ultimately solo performance. Her solo performance career began in 2007 under the direction of W. Kamau Bell at the Solo Performance Workshop, where Noorbakhsh penned several shows, including ''A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alsarah
Alsarah (Arabic: السارة) (born 1982) is a Sudanese-American singer, songwriter, and ethnomusicologist. She is the leader of the group Alsarah & the Nubatones, and has performed with other groups such as The Nile Project. Her stage name is a combination of her given name with the Arabic definite article. Early life Alsarah was born in Khartoum, Sudan. Both her parents are human-rights activists. When she was eight, her family fled the country during the 1989 coup by future president Omar al-Bashir to avoid being killed as dissidents. They then lived in Taez, Yemen, before fleeing again due to the country's 1994 civil war. They subsequently arrived in the United States claiming political asylum and settled in Boston. During this turbulent period, she often found solace in music, listening to bootleg recordings in Yemen and taking casual piano lessons from a family friend. In the United States, she sang in several world music choirs and attended high school at Pioneer Val ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lānai (Hawaiian Language)
A lanai or lānai is a type of roofed, open-sided veranda, patio, or porch originating in Hawaii. Many homes, apartment buildings, hotels and restaurants in Hawaii are built with one or more lānais. In Hawaii, the term's use has grown colloquially to encompass any sort of outdoor living area connected to or adjacent to an interior space—whether roofed or not—including apartment and hotel balconies. Examples One example of Hawaiian architecture featuring a lānai is the Albert Spencer Wilcox Beach House on the Island of Kauai. The residence of Queen Liliuokalani, Washington Place in Honolulu, was constructed with "open lānais" on all sides. Architectural feature The use of the ''lānai'' is one of the "Hawaiian modern" features in the style of some of the buildings of Vladimir Ossipoff, who saw in the lanai functional similarities to the Japanese ''engawa''. A lanai may also be a covered exterior passageway. Disney animator Dorse Lanpher (1935–2011) notes in his memoirs t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reem Bassous
Reem Miriam Bassous is a Lebanese artist. She was born on July 19, 1978; she was raised in Athens, Athens, Greece until she was four years old due to conflict in Lebanon. She moved back to Lebanon later that year. At the age of seventeen, Reem attended the Lebanese American University in Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, and at the age of 21 she attended George Washington University in Washington, D.C. There she earned her master's degree in painting and drawing. She moved to Hawaii in 2006, and became a lecturer at the University of Hawaii. Much of the artist's work deals with her memories of the Lebanese Civil War and its aftereffects. ''Memory for Forgetfulness'', in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art, shows the destruction caused by this conflict. Solo exhibitions * 2019. "Endless Red", Aupuni Space, Honolulu, HI * 2016 "Prey/Pray", SBCAST Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA * 2015 ''Beyond the Archive'', Honolulu Museum of Art; Honolulu, HI * 2013 ''Green Line'', The Washing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
