Artist: Kamil Dow
Year: 2005
Size: 69×98 cm (27.2″×38.6″)
Materials: gouache and ink on paper
Arabic calligraphy text in English:
“You want to grasp the heights without exertion, without feeling the bee’s sting.” (Al-Mutanabbi)
Arabic calligraphy text in Arabic (original):
“تريدين إدراك المعالي رخيصة، ولا بد دون الشّهد من إبر النحل.” (المتنبي)
Artist: Kamil Dow
Year: 2005
Size: 69×98 cm (27.2″×38.6″)
Materials: gouache and ink on paper
Arabic calligraphy text in English:
“You want to grasp the heights without exertion, without feeling the bee’s sting.” (Al-Mutanabbi)
Arabic calligraphy text in Arabic (original):
“تريدين إدراك المعالي رخيصة، ولا بد دون الشّهد من إبر النحل.” (المتنبي)
Artist: Kamil Dow
Year: 1992
Size: 100×70 cm (39.4″×27.6″)
Materials: gouache and ink on paper
Arabic calligraphy text in English:
“Give me the flute and sing, for singing is the secret of eternity. And the flute continues to lament after the world has perished.” (Jubran Khalil Jubran)
Arabic calligraphy text in Arabic (original):
“أعطني النّاي وغنّ فالغنا سرّ الخلود. وأنين النّاي يبقى بعد أن يفنى الوجود.” (جبران خليل جبران)
Artist: Kamil Dow
Year: 2008
Size: 70×100 cm (27.6″×39.4″)
Materials: acrylic, gouache and ink on paper
Arabic calligraphy text in English:
“In the beginning there was a rose before it became a whip.” (Hanna Abu Hanna)
Arabic calligraphy text in Arabic (original):
“في البدء الوردة كانت قبل السوط.” (حنا أبو حنا)
Artist: Kamil Dow
Year: 2005
Size: 50×70 cm (19.7″×27.6″)
Materials: acrylic, gouache and ink on paper
Arabic calligraphy text in English:
“Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.” (Proverbs 31:10)
Arabic calligraphy text in Arabic (original):
“إمرأة فاضلة من يجدها؟ لأن ثمنها يفوق اللآلئ.” (أمثال 31: 10)
Artist: Kamil Dow
Year: 1983
Size: 60×90 cm (23.6″×35.4″)
Materials: acrylic, gouache and ink on paper
Arabic calligraphy text in English:
“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written: Because of You we are being put to death all day long; we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.” (Romans 8:35-37)
Arabic calligraphy text in Arabic (original):
“من سيفصلنا عن محبة المسيح؟ أشدة أم ضيق أم اضطهاد أم جوع أم عري أم خطر أم سيف. كما هو مكتوب: إننا من أجلك نمات كل النهار. قد حسبنا مثل غنم للذبح. ولكننا في هذه جميعها يعظم انتصارنا بالذي أحبنا.” (رومية 8: 35-37)