The Mid-East take on an art great: Gustav Klimt

The Lebanese reminisce about the painter of 'The Kiss'; a more modern painter with an old fashioned theme in Amman; the Al Rawda Mosque is in trendy art design magazine and a look at Rana Husseini's 'Murder in the Name of Honor'.

Lebanon 411 [2]

King of Kitsch: Klimt Up Close and Personal

On Gustav Klimt’s 150th birthday, Vienna’s museums offer an intimate look at the artist, digging beneath the layers of paint and scratching away at the artist, but not without a good dose of kitsch.Teaser

Brick in the Head [3]

Cirque du Habaleeno in Town

The worst thing that could happen to someone, supposedly creative, is the loss of faith in what he is doing. A few months ago I lost faith in what I was doing. Until .. a double headed deus ex machina suddenly descended upon the stage of my mind where I was performing. I was finally free!

Uraiqat [4]

Al Rawda Mosque Featured in Trendesign Magazine- July2012

Light upon light: spiritual ascension through architecture..

Wafagal [5]

Murder in the Name of Honor

I fell in love twice when I was a teenager. And it was not a silent or one-sided love. I talked to them on the phone and met them, too. All that happened in secrecy because love in forbidden in my country, not by law but by families and traditions. That's another topic. In these two times I was caught by my family and was hit and punished . " Now I won't fall in love again cuz no man deserves losing all that I gain through the years for"