Category Archives: Ceramics
The pottery of ancient Tell Halaf, in Syria, and my ceramics
The love affair between me and the ancient pottery of Tell Halaf started when a friend of mine, a fellow potter and a university lecturer lent me some of his books about ancient Mesopotamia and the history of archaeological excavations there. … Continue reading
Posted in Alisar Iram's art, Alisar Iram's pottery and ceramics, Alisar Iram: articles and notes, Archaeology, Ceramics, Civilization, Cradle of Civilization, Images, Pottery, Starvation and malnutrition in Syria, Syria's cultural heritage, Syrian ceramics, Tell Halaf, Tell Halaf pottery, The Neolethic
Tagged Alisar Iram's art, Alisar Iram's pottery and ceramics, Alisar's notes and articles, Art of the ancient potter, Cradle of civilization, Syria, Syrian heritage and antiquities, Tell Halaf pottery, The Neolethic
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Art is Civilization and a civilizing discipline: The Angel of the Trumpet
I must remember that I am an artist. I must remember my paintings, my etchings, my ceramics and my glass sculptures. The sorrows of Syria, the irredeemably harrowing o pain of the children of Syria and my bearing witness to them have almost severed my life-giving relationship … Continue reading
Posted in Alisar Iram's art, Arab Islamic art, Arab Islamic Civilization, Ceramics, Civilization
Tagged Alisar Iram's ceramics, Alisar's art, Arab Islamic civilization, Arab Islamic art, Ceramics, Porcelain plate, Syria, The art of manuscripts and illumination, The art of manuscripts and iluumination
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We shall raise our voices loud and clear against the inhumanity of man to man
A few days ago a discussion took place on the page of Yassin Al-Haj Saleh at Facebook. Y. Al-Haj Saleh, who had spent in the past 16 years in the prisons of the Syrian Regime, is a well known Syrian … Continue reading
Posted in Alisar's notes and aerticles, Article, Ceramics, Civilization, Images, Syria, Syrian Heritage, Syrian people, Syrian regime, Third phase+ the present phase of the Syrian Revolution, Victims
Tagged Civilization, Human spirit, Images. Art, syrian government, Syrian heritage and antiquities, Victims, violence
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Al-Raqqa, once the second capital of a great empire then a ceramic center which created wonders in clay
Recently the city of Al-Raqqa, Eastern Syria, has been a prey to the Syrian bombers which resulted in the deaths of many children, not to mention a trail of destruction. This aroused great sadness in me, a ceramist, because Al-Raqqa was a … Continue reading
Posted in Alisar's notes and aerticles, Art, Ceramics, Raqqa, Syria, Syrian Heritage
Tagged Images. Art, Syria, Syrian heritage and antiquities
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