Gianfranco Armando

“Tuesday Conversation” with Gianfranco Armando at the Yarmouk Cultural Centre.

Gianfranco Armando. “Discovering the Vatican Secret Archives”

Gianfranco Armando graduated in modern history from the University of Turin, with a dissertation on the French revolutionary press, and continued his education in Rome, where he studied theology and Church history at the Pontifical Gregorian University. He has been the archivist and advisor at the Vatican Secret Archives since 2004, where he has been […]

Sheikha Hussah Sabah al-Salem al-Sabah, Director-General of Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah, Heads to the USA Where She Will be Giving a Talk on ( Art: Kuwaiti Experience in connecting Cultures ) at Arizona State University

Sheikha Hussah Sabah al-Salem al-Sabah, Director-General of Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah, will start this week a trip to USA. She will be giving a talk on ( Art: Kuwaiti Experience in connecting Cultures ) at Arizona State University organised by the Council for Arabic and Islamic Studies. NYC is Sheikha Hussah’s next stop to attend the […]

The Music of the Soul

Paris-based pianist and composer, Renara Akhoundova was trained in the strictest of classical piano traditions from the age of five, but since 2004 she only records and performs her own original compositions and improvisations. Her music is impossible to classify – it is literally “The Music of the Soul”.

Dr. Agnes Stillfried. “Western perceptions of the Ottoman East: Selected Renaissance artworks from the collections of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna”

Dr. Agnes Stillfried is a Curator of Education and Communication at the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna. She has published on various aspects of Baroque Art, contributed to a number of museum catalogues and publications, and has taught courses in Art History as an adjunct professor both at the American University in Cairo and at the American […]