16 th

Cultural Season
Calendar of Events

September 2010 December 2010

29 Sarah al-Hamad 01 Music Circle Concert

Lecture: In My Aunt’s Kitchen: Cooking and Culture
in the Gulf 04 Excursion: Visit to the Camel Races

October 2010 06 Juan Souto

Lecture: The Aljaferia of Saragossa: between Cordova
04 Ziad Rajab and Marrakech
Lecture: The Arts of Clay and Colours
08 Book Club
06 Music Circle Concert Discussion: Arabic Novel in Translation

11 Abdel-Wahed el-Wakil 13 Emil Ibrahimov

Lecture: The Implementation of Islamic Principles in Concert: Improvised Western Jazz with Oriental
Contemporary Architectural Design Mugam Style Music

13 Book Club 15 ‫ �أمين ف�ؤاد ال�سيد‬.‫د‬

Discussion: Reading Lolita in Tehran ‫التطور العمراين ملدينة القاهرة‬

18 Paul Kunitzsch 20 Souad T. Ali

Lecture: Illustrating the Sky: Abu ‘I-Husayn al-Sufi’s Lecture: Focus on the Egalitarian Messages of the Qur’an
Drawings of the Constellations
22 Music Circle Concert
20 Music Circle Concert
January 2011
22 Excursion: “Historic Kuwait City” Walking Tour
03 Efim A. Rezvan
25 Christian Schmitt and Ms. Tatjana Ruhland Lecture: The Account of Two Russians Travellers to
Concert: Piano and Flute Kuwait and Ethiopia

27 Anne al-Bassam 05 Music Circle Concert

Lecture: Historic Personalities in the Gulf
10 Mohamed Kazem and Colleagues
November 2010 Concert: In Search of Understanding

01 Martina Rugiadi 12 Book Club

Lecture: Carved Marble in Medieval Ghazni: Function Discussion: A History of God
and Meaning
17 ‫ فهمي جدعان‬.‫د‬
03 Music Circle Concert ‫ الطرق ال�سالكة‬،‫ الق�ضايا املُلْتَبِ�سة‬،‫ ال�صور‬:‫ت�أمالت يف حالة الإ�سالم اليوم‬

04 Green Caravan 19 Music Circle Concert

Documentary: “Tides of War: Eco-Disaster in the Gulf”
by Michael McKinnon 22 Excursion: “Historic Kuwait City” Walking Tour

08 Polish Music Quintet 24 Ahmed Sedkey

Concert: Polonia Restituta (Poland Reborn) Lecture: Conservation Qualities: Integrity,
Authenticity and Sustainability
10 Book Club
Discussion: Pilgrimage to Mecca 26 Music Circle Concert

22 Naman Ahuja 31 Stefan Weber

Lecture: The Chandayana: one of the Earliest Lecture: Fragments of a Lost Past or Evidence of a
Illustrated Sufi Manuscripts of Hindustan Connected History

24 Sophie Budden
Workshop: Object Conservation

29 Public Authority for Applied Education and Training

Department of Music
Concert: Traditional Arab Music for Orchestra and Chorale

All events take place at 7pm at the al-Maidan Cultural Centre (T: 2563 6561 / 6528), located in the Abdullah al-Salem
School in Maidan Hawally; are in English; and on Monday or Wednesday, unless otherwise noted. Please visit our
website for more information: www.darmuseum.org.kw

Monday Wednesday Other

 16 th
Cultural Season
Calendar of Events

February 2011 11 Savina Yannatou

Concert: Songs of the Mediterranean
02 Abdallah al-Mekhyal
Documentary and Discussion: Falconry 13 Book Club
Discussion: What Went Wrong and Orientalism
07 Tamer el-Leithy
Lecture: Gender, Family, and Islamic Law: Women’s 18 Aly Gabr
Mark (and Voice) in Legal Documents from Medieval Lecture: Arab-Muslim Influences Appropriated into
Egypt, 10th-15th centuries A.D. European Medieval Architecture

08 Book Club (Note change to Tuesday) 20 Music Circle Concert

Discussion: Kalila wa Dimna
23 Excursion: Tarek Rajab Calligraphy Museum
09 Shehab Shehab, Moderator
Lecture: Archaeology in Kuwait 24 Farid Abdal
Workshop: Calligraphy (day one)
12 Excursion: Tour of Failaka Island Archaeology Sites
25 Keireine Canavan
14 Anthony Peebles Lecture: Weaving in the Arabian Gulf: Historical
Concert: Classical Piano Traditions and Future Prospects

16 Music Circle Concert 27 Farid Abdal

Workshop: Calligraphy (day two)
19 Excursion: Tour of Subiyyah Archaeology Sites
28 Farid Abdal
21 Lisa Urkevich Workshop: Calligraphy (day three)
Lecture/Performance: Soundscapes of the Hijaz:
Traditional Music of Western Saudi Arabia May 2011

March 2011 02 Jiři Bárta and Mr. Milan Svoboda

Concert: Piano and Cello
02 Music Circle Concert
04 Music Circle Concert
07 Ramzi Yassa
Concert: Classical Piano 09 Martina Muller-Wiener
Lecture: Al-Jazari and Chinese-Islamic Contacts in
09 Book Club 13th century Northern Syria
Discussion: The Smiles of Saints
11 Okura, Tsunemi and HIMIKO
14 Abdulhadi Alajmi Concert: Oud and Japanese Drums
Lecture: Women in Islam as Portrayed in Biographical
Sources 16 Melanie Gibson
Lecture: Ceramic Sculpture from the Medieval Islamic World
16 Music Circle Concert
17 Book Club (Note change to Tuesday)
21 Elaheh Kheirandish Discussion: Ali and Nino
Lecture: Windows into Arabic and Persian Scientific
Traditions 18 Music Circle Concert

23 Music Circle Concert 25 Antoine Touma

Workshop: Carpets
28 ‫ �آمال قرامي‬.‫د‬.‫�أ‬
‫االفرتا�ضي‬
ّ ‫الن�سائي يف الف�ضاء‬
ّ ‫ احل�ضور‬:‫ك�سر جدار ال�صمت والتهمي�ش‬ 30 W. Nathaniel Howell
Lecture: Strangers When We Met: One Hundred Years
30 Music Circle Concert of American Community in Kuwait

April 2011 June 2011

04 Charles Melville 01 ANNUAL CULTURAL EVENING

Lecture: The Shahnama and the Persian ‘Arts of the Book’
8 Book Club
06 Music Circle Concert Discussion: The Anchor Book of Modern Arabic Fiction

All events take place at 7pm at the al-Maidan Cultural Centre (T: 2563 6561 / 6528), located in the Abdullah al-Salem
School in Maidan Hawally; are in English; and on Monday or Wednesday, unless otherwise noted. Please visit our
website for more information: www.darmuseum.org.kw

Monday Wednesday Other