Historic Cities Restoration Program

You must click through to see the images. Carpet with Bic pencils | Fubiz™. L’artiste Jonathan Bréchignac a travaillé plus d’un an sur ce projet de tapis illustré avec des stylos Bic. Fabriqué à la taille d’un tapis de prière musulmane réelle, ce morceau est minutieusement détaillé, s’inspirant de différentes cultures. Un rendu à découvrir dans la suite.

Muslim American Artists Strive to Bridge a Chasm – NYTimes.com. When Wajahat Ali, a young Muslim American playwright from Fremont, needed to build an audience for his work, he produced his plays in cramped Pakistani restaurants in the East Bay and used Facebook to get the word out.  His play “The Domestic Crusaders” went on to open at the Berkeley Repertory Theater in 2005, and then moved to Off Broadway.   … Mr. Ali is one of a growing number of Bay Area artists who are reimagining one of the country’s most complicated compound identities: Muslim American.  At a time…