Ziad Sayid Rajab
Dr Ziad Rajab is the director of the New English School and a Tareq Rajab Museum board member. In addition to being a human resource specialist, he is involved in the arts, and has non-professional certifications in book binding, illumination, portraiture, oil painting and pottery. He is also an accomplished flautist. Incense Burners in the Tareq Rajab Museum
Incense is inextricably linked to the history of civilisations in the Middle East and in particular, the Arabian Peninsula. From pre-Islamic times the region grew rich and fabled cities were established based on the production and trade of incense including frankincense and myrrh. As long as incense has been used there have been incense burners. They were used in the dwellings of the simplest of people as well as the palaces of rulers.
There are several incense burners on display in the Tareq Rajab Museum, from the earliest dynasties such as Ummayad and Abbasid, and across the ages and regions to the Fatimid, Mamluk and Ghazni empires. Various incense burners from the Tareq Rajab Museum will be presented in this talk.