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Biblical Art in New York

Art, Bible and Holy Land


Gustave Doré (French, 1832-1883), Moses before the Pharaoh, 1878

Sacred Visions
Nineteenth-Century Biblical Art from the Dahesh Museum Collection
October 18, 2013–February 16, 2014

Comprised of approximately 30 works of art, Sacred Visions: Nineteenth-Century Biblical Art from the Dahesh Museum Collection highlights how biblical subject matter was embraced within the academies of 19th-century Europe. Historically ranked at the top of the Academy’s hierarchy of genres, biblical depictions of both Old and New Testament subjects enjoyed a resurgence in the 19th century. This renewed interest may be attributed to several factors, including the developing field of biblical archaeology and the advent of photography, which produced travel books of the Holy Land. During this century of political and religious upheaval, artists – and the larger societies of which they were a part – looked to the Bible to provide inspiration, often in the form of allegory, for contemporary circumstances.

Click here to read an introductory essay to the exhibition by Sarah Schaefer, co-curator of the exhibition.

Museum of Biblical Art
1865 Broadway at 61st Street
New York, NY 10023
Phone: (212) 408-1500

Islamophobia on the Internet

CyberOrient, Islamophobia, Islamophobia 101

Islamophobia on the Internet: The growth of online hate targeting Muslims

On International Human Rights Day, December 10th 2013, the Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI) have released a major new report into the growing problem of online hate targeting the Muslim community. The full report, titled ‘Islamophobia on the Internet: The growth of online hate targeting Muslims’, is available below as a free download.

The report examines anti-Muslim hate on Facebook and was produced by the Online Hate Prevention Institute, Australia’s only charity entirely dedicated to the growing problem of online hate. We thank the Islamic Council of Victoria, the peak body representing Victoria’s Muslim community, who we consulted regularly in the preparation of this report. The report follows previous major works by OHPI examining online hate against Indigenous Australians, the Jewish Community, and the ANZACs and Military Veterans. Continue reading Islamophobia on the Internet →

الى اللاعبين السياسيين

Ethics, Terrorism Issue, Yemen

الى اللاعبين السياسيين الذين يلعبون بالنار، النار ستحرق فلذات اكبادكم قبل ان تحرق الآخرين.
الى كل المناضلين الطيبين، التهرب من مواجهة الحقائق المريرة، والبحث عن شماعات يلقى عليها اللوم في كل صغيرة وكبيرة، لا يحل المشاكل، بل يساعد على تفاقمها.
الى الأغلبية السلبية من المتفرجين، سلبيتكم هي الهشيم الذي تنتشر فيه نيران الفوضى والهدم والقتل وتنتزع الابتسامة من وجوه أطفالكم.
أبناء الجنوب وأبناء الشمال اخوة في الدنيا والدين، والمخاطر والظلم والمعاناة واقعة على الجميع، والعابثين بأمن واستقرار الجنوب هم العابثين بأمن واستقرار الشمال.
وعلى من أمن بالله ورسوله ان يتذكر قوله تعالى: “وَاذْكُرُوا نِعْمَةَ اللَّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ وَمِيثَاقَهُ الَّذِي وَاثَقَكُمْ بِهِ إِذْ قُلْتُمْ سَمِعْنَا وَأَطَعْنَا Û– وَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ Ûš إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَلِيمٌ بِذَاتِ الصُّدُورِ”. صدق الله العلي العظيم

محمد احمد جرهوم
صنعاء اليمن

New CyberOrient issue is out

"Arab Spring", Islam and Christianity, Islam in America, Music and Dance, Turkey

The latest issue of CyberOrient (Vol. 7, Iss. 2, 2013) is now available online as open access. Here are the contents:

Editorial

Orchestrating Hip-hop Culture Online: Within and Beyond the Middle East
Anders Ackfeldt

Articles

Muslimhiphop.com: Constructing Muslim Hip Hop Identities on the Internet
Inka Rantakallio

Hanouneh style resistance. Becoming hip-hop authentic by balancing
skills and painful lived experiences
Andrea Dankic


“I Am Malcolm X” – Islamic Themes in Hip-hop Video Clips Online
Anders Ackfeldt Continue reading New CyberOrient issue is out →

The Death of Bryan

Bible and Holy Land, Humor and Satire, Islam and Christianity, YouTube Watch

by Ian Burrell, The Independent, October 18, 2013

The British public has such “poor religious literacy” that a modern audience would be baffled by the Monty Python film The Life of Brian – because it would not understand the Biblical references, a senior BBC figure has claimed.

Aaqil Ahmed, the BBC’s head of religion and ethics, told The Independent that failings in religious education over two generations were undermining public understanding of contemporary national and international issues. “You had generations that missed out. We have poor religious literacy in this country and we have to do something about it,” he said.

He was speaking at the launch of an ambitious three-part BBC2 series which will address the subject of pilgrimage from a broad perspective and is intended to attract the interest of Atheists as much as religious believers.

“If you tried to make The Life of Brian today it would fall flat on its face because the vast majority of the audience would not get most of the jokes. They don’t have the knowledge,” Ahmed said. He questioned whether modern audiences would appreciate that the “great joke about the Sermon on the Mount” in the 1979 Python film, where a woman asks “What’s so special about the cheesemakers?”, was a reference to Jesus’s words “Blessed are the peacemakers” from the Bible. Continue reading The Death of Bryan →