Hathboor is where my school has once sourced artist materials. It is a larger version of the store offerings in DUCTAC. Remember that the entrance to DUCTAC is outside the mall from the 3rd floor parking lot.Įmirates Trading has assorted supplies for artists and is located on Sheikh Zayed Road. Art SuppliesĭUCTAC at Mall of the Emirates has an art store in the same location, across from the public library. Gulf Photo Plusoffers photography classes in Al Quoz. They also have ensemble opportunities.Ĭraftland offers quilting and sewing classes and is in Jumeriah Town Centre on Beach Road. They offer all sorts of instrumental classes, which can be group or private. The Centre for Musical Arts is located in both the DUCTAC Center in Mall of the Emirates and in the Gold and Diamond Park just the next exit from Mall of Emirates on Sheik Zayed Road. This sometimes includes Arabic Calligraphy!Īl Funoon in Dubai Ladies Club also offers classes. Tashkeel – Located in Nad Al Sheba, Tashkeel is a gallery and arts center that also offers classes that have included jewelry making and Adobe Photoshop.ĭubai International Arts Center– Located in Jumeriah, DIAC is a gallery and arts center that offers assorted visual arts courses. (Note: this can be hard to find at first, it is near the upstairs entrance/exit of Magic Planet and you must exit the mall to reach the center, which has its own separate entrance!) ClassesĭUCTAC– Located in Mall of the Emirates, this center offers dance, music, visual arts, drama and other courses. So here is a list of everything creativity related that I know about for those newbies or newly interested in the arts in Dubai. "I like the prestige and beauty associated with this style," she said.I had to search forever when I moved here to discover art resources in Dubai. She is learning to write in Deewani Jalee, one of the more difficult classical styles, restricted in the past to the royal court.
And just as Mr al Doury said calligraphy requires dedication, imagination and patience, these students respectively personified each of those virtues.įor Sabiha Muzaffar, 31, a housewife from Saudi Arabia, the sessions provide a valuable link to her religion and language. They seemed to be more patient than most, helping to create some of the centre's best pieces.ĭuring a session inside the master's classroom, three very different students worked at copying Arabic script. He noted that some of the best amateur calligraphers to pass through his doors were among a group of Japanese students last year.
"In some ways, calligraphy is a mirror of the soul." "How someone expresses themselves in calligraphy tells me a lot about their personality and psychology," he said. Through teaching, Mr al Doury has acquired an expertise in understanding the personalities of his students. "Initially, there was more interest from non-Arabs to learn this art, with only recently Arabs are going back to their roots and learning the art and script of their ancestors," Mr al Doury said. They come from all walks of life and all nationalities, signing up for a month-long course of three sessions a week at a cost of Dh100, with the option of renewing. Since the centre opened in the emirate's heritage area in 1999, under the patronage of Dr Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed, Ruler of Sharjah, more than 10,000 students have had a lesson with the 61-year-old calligraphy master from Iraq. "It needs patience, dedication and imagination."
"Arabic calligraphy art is like loving a woman," said Mr al Doury. SHARJAH // Depending on one's point of view, Arabic calligraphy can be a work of art, a spiritual medium of communication or an expression of an evolving identity.Īli al Doury, master calligrapher, artist and head of the Sharjah Centre for Arabic Calligraphy and Ornamentation, describes the relationship he has cultivated with the script over the past 40 years as a romantic one.
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