Artist: Kamil Dow
Year: 2012
Size: 70×100 cm (27.6″×39.4″)
Materials: gouache and ink on paper
Arabic calligraphy text in English:
“The olive migration has lasted too long / The olive migration is a sunset of demise / A little patience, and the sun will rise / And the men will return.” (Rushdi al-Madhi)
Arabic calligraphy text in Arabic (original):
“هجرة الزّيتون طالت / هجرة الزّيتون غروب زوال / صبرا قليلا، وستطلع الشّمس / ويعود الرّجال.” (رشدي الماضي)
Artist: Kamil Dow
Year: 2012
Size: 70×100 cm (27.6″×39.4″)
Materials: gouache and ink on paper
Arabic calligraphy text in English:
“The olive migration has lasted too long / The olive migration is a sunset of demise / A little patience, and the sun will rise / And the men will return.” (Rushdi al-Madhi)
Arabic calligraphy text in Arabic (original):
“هجرة الزّيتون طالت / هجرة الزّيتون غروب زوال / صبرا قليلا، وستطلع الشّمس / ويعود الرّجال.” (رشدي الماضي)
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: 80×110 cm (31.5″×43.3″)
Materials: acrylic, gouache and ink on paper
Arabic calligraphy text in English:
“Give me the flute and sing, for singing is the secret of eternity.” (Jubran Khalil Jubran)
Arabic calligraphy text in Arabic (original):
“أعطني النّاي وغنّ، فالغنا سرّ الخلود.” (جبران خليل جبران)
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)
Artist: Kamil Dow
Year: 1992
Size: 70×100 cm (27.6″×39.4″)
Materials: acrylic, gouache and ink on paper
Arabic calligraphy text in English:
“I will live despite illness and enemies, like an eagle above the high summit.” (Abu al-Qasim al-Shabbi)
Arabic calligraphy text in Arabic (original):
“سأعيش رغم الدّاء والأعداء كالنّسر فوق القمّة الشمّاء.” (أبو القاسم الشابي)