Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Gallery.
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Crafting an ethos
 By 1993, she had passed out with a degree in ceramic design with honours. Shazia Mirza is a creative ceramist whose work ethos is fuelled by a strong sense of inquiry, enabling her to bring fresh thinking and original approaches to her expression....
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Celebrating ordinary souls
 The style is monumental, created from a minimal palette, the inspiration a self-portrait — introspective, rugged with troubled expression. The recent work of Abdul Jabber Gull displayed at the Canvas Gallery,...
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Legacy of caliphs and kings
 The accounts of Islamic civilization in Spain that lasted for nearly eight centuries, first its spectacular rise and then slow tortuous decline, often evoke nostalgia among Muslims....
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Why do we need art?
 An American lady travelling to Paris in 1913 — the kind of American lady who will still be travelling to Paris in 2013 — asked Ezra Pound what he thought art was for. Pound replied: “Ask me what a rose bush is for.” Europe was on the edge of war....
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Dialogue of the times
 Khadim Ali told me of a strange story addressing his recent work. He described the customary celebrations in Afghanistan, his ancestral homeland, when people gather at Mazar-i-Sharif on the March 21...
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Nag at last
 What a lot of difference time can make! What appeared to be on the verge of happening a year ago may, with the passage of time, assumes the shape of impossibility,...
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