Artist: Kamil Dow
Year: 2005
Size: 70×100 cm (27.6″×39.4″)
Materials: acrylic, gouache and ink on paper
Arabic calligraphy text in English:
“Oh spring, take me back to my homeland, if only as a flower.” ()
Arabic calligraphy text in Arabic (original):
“بلادي أعدني إليها، ولو زهرة يا ربيع.” ()
Artist: Kamil Dow
Year: 2005
Size: 70×100 cm (27.6″×39.4″)
Materials: acrylic, gouache and ink on paper
Arabic calligraphy text in English:
“Oh spring, take me back to my homeland, if only as a flower.” ()
Arabic calligraphy text in Arabic (original):
“بلادي أعدني إليها، ولو زهرة يا ربيع.” ()
Artist: Kamil Dow
Year: 1998
Size: 70×100 cm (27.6″×39.4″)
Materials: gouache and ink on paper
Arabic calligraphy text in English:
“A mother is a school, when so equipped, she trains a good nation.” (Hafez Ibrahim)
Arabic calligraphy text in Arabic (original):
“الأم مدرسة إذا أعددتها، أعددت شعبا طيب الأعراق.” (حافظ إبراهيم)
Artist: Kamil Dow
Year: 2005
Size: 70×100 cm (27.6″×39.4″)
Materials: gouache and ink on paper
Arabic calligraphy text in English:
“I long for my mother’s bread, my mother’s coffee and my mother’s touch…” (Mahmoud Darwish)
Arabic calligraphy text in Arabic (original):
“أحنُّ إلى خبزِ أمّي وقهوةِ أمّي ولمسةِ أمّي وتكبرُ فيَّ الطفولةُ يوماً على صدرِ يومِ وأعشقُ عمري لأنّي إذا متُّ أخجلُ من دمعِ أمّي.” (محمود درويش)
Artist: Kamil Dow
Year: 2010
Size: 70×100 cm (27.6″×39.4″)
Materials: acrylic, gouache and ink on paper
Arabic calligraphy text in English:
“Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.” (Psalm 2:8)
Arabic calligraphy text in Arabic (original):
“إسألني فأعطيك الأمم ميراثا لك، وأقاصي الأرض ملكا لك.” (مزمور 2: 8)
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)