This study examines interior scenes in the celebrated Safavid Shahnameh of 1525 produced for Shah Tahmasp, highlighting their contribution as a unique category within architectural representations in Persian art. It ...

“The word/image problem is ‘inside’ the problem of the image, and vice versa … the word as image, image as word; the word as limit for the image, and vice versa.”¹ According to W. J. T. Mitchell, during situations of trauma, ...

In this evocative and well-crafted monograph, Marie Grace Brown recounts a history of Sudan with women’s bodies and dress as her record. The title of the book, Khartoum at Night, is taken from the name of a popular 1950s ...

Chatbots are important tools for improving learning by assisting students in their daily learning activities. In recent years, Deep Learning techniques have made it possible to train chatbots in increasingly comprehensive ...

The Legal Design movement has succeeded in proposing change to communities through collaboration between the legal and design professions. As a result, new kinds of empathetic solutions have been introduced where the citizen ...

On 17 October 2019 in Beirut, a Lebanese state bodyguard confronted by demonstrators opened fire when a female protestor hit him with a side kick. Another protestor recorded this moment on his mobile phone. A single frame ...

Architectural decoration of the early Ghaznavids in the late tenth-early eleventh century was often approached in a set of disparate elements and fields because of the scarcity of its remaining monuments and objects. Art ...

The Seljuqs are a tribe from Oguz origins who came into Central Asia from the Eurasian Steppe1. The Turkic dynasty ruled over the area from 1040 to 11942. They were known for their warfare skills, and eventually their rule ...

The early representation of nature in the Islamic manuscripts in the period before the Mongol invasion has been often overlooked. This paper studies the early representation of nature in the late twelfth and early thirteenth ...