[Redbook9:190-191][19910426:1153b]{Modern Arab Art}[26th April 1991]

[Redbook9:190-191][19910426:1153b]{Modern Arab Art}[26th April 1991]

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The larger painting* illustrated on the opposite page** is a superb tailpiece or afterword to all the earlier notes on Islam*** and particularly Islamic culture.**** It would be hard to imagine anything more filled with hope for the future, with promise of fulfilment to come out of the richness and the restrictions of the past.

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*’Summer in Aden’, 1984, by Afifa Liebi#

**A cutting# from The Guardian dated Tuesday April 23 1991, headed ‘The painted oasis’ and superheaded ‘When modernism met Mesopotamia, a vigorous new art blossomed in the desert. Faleh A. Jabar reports’, is not reproduced in the ts. It includes a grey-scale reproduction of the painting referred to above, reproduced here (above).*

***[[Redbook9:56][19910409:1239]{Islam}[9th April 1991]ffff]

****(ref VIII:[[Redbook8:351][19910316:1612]{Arabian Islam}[16th March 1991]ff,] end;

IX: [[Redbook9:96-100][19910414:1104]{Islamic Art – The Word (1)}[14th April 1991]&fff(&ant); & esp [Redbook9:124][19910415:0840z]{[Islamic Art –] Visual Arts}[15th April 1991],] above)

#G[uardian] 19910423.0920

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