Razmig Bedirian

Including a tribute to late Lebanese painter Abdel Hamid Baalbaki and an exhibition highlighting the influence of Vietnamese artist Tran Luong

Local institutions are rolling out programmes especially curated for the holy month

Vestiges features a series of stone sculptures showing twisted human faces and body parts that have been severed

Annual event, held this year under the theme To Carry Song, coincides with the Sharjah Biennial

Plus, an exhibition dedicated to the history of Arabic calligraphy at the Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilisation

More than 120 exhibitors will be participating at the fair this year

Eight creatives, including four from Saudi Arabia, took part in the three-month programme

With its positive connotations, it is also a popular Muslim name around the world

Plus, an exhibition of porcelain works that pays tribute to a piece by the 13th century Sufi poet Rumi

Exhibition is the inaugural event of the Abu Dhabi Creative Centre, which has reopened after closing in 2020

The inaugural event is running in Abu Dhabi and Al Ain until April 30

Sharjah foundation commissions artwork inspired by Islamic Scientists, which hails male leaders from the past, to celebrate female achievement

Plus, the unveiling of a new painting dedicated to the female thinkers of the medieval Islamic world

The Touch of Light writer is competing against authors from Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Mauritania

Takhayal is a sculptural ode to Tashkeel and shares its focus on offering a spectrum of possibility, he says