Artist: Kamil Dow
Year: 2015
Size: 50×70 cm (19.7″×27.6″)
Materials: ink on paper
Arabic calligraphy text in English:
“Today / Your shadow brushes over me playfully / So I will scatter my light before you / Your beauty melts me / I dissolve like a piece of sugar / Into your coffee cup.” (Anwar Saba)
Arabic calligraphy text in Arabic (original):
“اليوم / يجتاحني ظلّكِ عابثا / فأنثرُ شموسي أمامك / يصهرني جمالكِ / فأذوب كقطعة سكّر / في فنجان قهوتك.” (أنور سابا)
Artist: Kamil Dow
Year: 2015
Size: 50×70 cm (19.7″×27.6″)
Materials: ink on paper
Arabic calligraphy text in English:
“Today / Your shadow brushes over me playfully / So I will scatter my light before you / Your beauty melts me / I dissolve like a piece of sugar / Into your coffee cup.” (Anwar Saba)
Arabic calligraphy text in Arabic (original):
“اليوم / يجتاحني ظلّكِ عابثا / فأنثرُ شموسي أمامك / يصهرني جمالكِ / فأذوب كقطعة سكّر / في فنجان قهوتك.” (أنور سابا)
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: 2007
Size: 60×80 cm (23.6″×31.5″)
Materials: gouache and ink on paper
Arabic calligraphy text in English:
“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.” (John 1:14)
Arabic calligraphy text in Arabic (original):
“والكلمة صار جسدًا وحلّ بيننا.” (يوحنا 1: 14)
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:
“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: 50×70 cm (19.7″×27.6″)
Materials: acrylic, gouache and ink on paper
Arabic calligraphy text in English:
“I am the light of the world; he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.” (John 8:12)
Arabic calligraphy text in Arabic (original):
“أنا هو نور العالم. من يتبعني فلا يمشي في الظلمة، بل يكون له نور الحياة.” (يوحنا 8: 12)