The Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin

This is the place where I spend a lot my Berlin-time.  And just so you know, the restaurant is staffed by the loveliest people serving the most excellent food (the potato soup is my favourite but the pasta was exquisite that time too) and the gift shop has an incredible selection of books, often with a good selection on special.

Ali Kaaf, Artist

I was fortunate to not only meet Ali Kaaf but photograph him too.  And it was a pleasure.

Ali is exhibiting work in the exhibition TASWIR: Pictorial Mappings of Modernity and Islam, in the Martin-Gropius-Bau from November 4 till January 18, 2010. 
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TASWIR – Pictorial Mappings of Modernity and Islam. The Opening, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin 2009

I found this group really rather beautiful and couldn’t resist photographing them as they sat there on the stairs inside the Martin Gropius Bau here in Berlin.

TASWIR – Pictorial Mappings of Modernity and Islam. The Opening, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin 2009

I loved the way this woman’s hat matched in with the colour of my photographs here in this shot.

TASWIR – Pictorial Mappings of Modernity and Islam. The Opening, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin 2009

TASWIR – Pictorial Mappings of Modernity and Islam. The Opening, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin 2009

The opening was superb.  Here’s a small taste ...

Buthayna Ali, Artist

My Work is a trial to break down many barriers, such as the one between people and a classical work of art…
Buthayna Ali, Artist.

Buthayna Ali’s installation, titled we ,nous, نحن  is a stunning work to view in real life however this link gives you a taste ...

And if…

Etel Adnan, Berlin 2009

“As for any serious writer, the audience of an Arab–American cannot be confined to his or her fellow Arabs. Books have a life of their own and no one can determine their fate. The only thing we can strive for consciously is to be aware of the existence of a growing body of Arab–American literature, try to know it…