BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila X-WR-TIMEZONE:Eastern Time (US & Canada) BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144229Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956033 DTSTART:20170909T140000Z DTEND:20170909T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144229Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956034 DTSTART:20170910T140000Z DTEND:20170910T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144229Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956035 DTSTART:20170912T140000Z DTEND:20170912T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144229Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956036 DTSTART:20170913T140000Z DTEND:20170913T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144229Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956037 DTSTART:20170914T140000Z DTEND:20170914T233000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144229Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956038 DTSTART:20170915T140000Z DTEND:20170915T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144229Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956039 DTSTART:20170916T140000Z DTEND:20170916T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144229Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956040 DTSTART:20170917T140000Z DTEND:20170917T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144229Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956041 DTSTART:20170919T140000Z DTEND:20170919T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144229Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956042 DTSTART:20170920T140000Z DTEND:20170920T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144229Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956043 DTSTART:20170921T140000Z DTEND:20170921T233000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144229Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956044 DTSTART:20170922T140000Z DTEND:20170922T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144229Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956045 DTSTART:20170923T140000Z DTEND:20170923T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144229Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956046 DTSTART:20170924T140000Z DTEND:20170924T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144229Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956047 DTSTART:20170926T140000Z DTEND:20170926T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144229Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956048 DTSTART:20170927T140000Z DTEND:20170927T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144229Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956049 DTSTART:20170928T140000Z DTEND:20170928T233000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144229Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956050 DTSTART:20170929T140000Z DTEND:20170929T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144229Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956051 DTSTART:20170930T140000Z DTEND:20170930T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144229Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956052 DTSTART:20171001T140000Z DTEND:20171001T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144229Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956053 DTSTART:20171003T140000Z DTEND:20171003T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144229Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956054 DTSTART:20171004T140000Z DTEND:20171004T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144229Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956055 DTSTART:20171005T140000Z DTEND:20171005T233000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144229Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956056 DTSTART:20171006T140000Z DTEND:20171006T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144229Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956057 DTSTART:20171007T140000Z DTEND:20171007T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144229Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956058 DTSTART:20171008T140000Z DTEND:20171008T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144229Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956059 DTSTART:20171010T140000Z DTEND:20171010T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144229Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956060 DTSTART:20171011T140000Z DTEND:20171011T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144229Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956061 DTSTART:20171012T140000Z DTEND:20171012T233000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144229Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956062 DTSTART:20171013T140000Z DTEND:20171013T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144229Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956063 DTSTART:20171014T140000Z DTEND:20171014T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144229Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956064 DTSTART:20171015T140000Z DTEND:20171015T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144229Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956065 DTSTART:20171017T140000Z DTEND:20171017T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144229Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956066 DTSTART:20171018T140000Z DTEND:20171018T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144229Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956067 DTSTART:20171019T140000Z DTEND:20171019T233000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144229Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956068 DTSTART:20171020T140000Z DTEND:20171020T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144229Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956069 DTSTART:20171021T140000Z DTEND:20171021T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144229Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956070 DTSTART:20171022T140000Z DTEND:20171022T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144229Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956071 DTSTART:20171024T140000Z DTEND:20171024T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144229Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956072 DTSTART:20171025T140000Z DTEND:20171025T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144229Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956073 DTSTART:20171026T140000Z DTEND:20171026T233000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144229Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956074 DTSTART:20171027T140000Z DTEND:20171027T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144229Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956075 DTSTART:20171028T140000Z DTEND:20171028T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144229Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956076 DTSTART:20171029T140000Z DTEND:20171029T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144229Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956077 DTSTART:20171031T140000Z DTEND:20171031T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144229Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956078 DTSTART:20171101T140000Z DTEND:20171101T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144229Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956079 DTSTART:20171102T140000Z DTEND:20171102T233000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144229Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956080 DTSTART:20171103T140000Z DTEND:20171103T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144229Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956081 DTSTART:20171104T140000Z DTEND:20171104T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144229Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956082 DTSTART:20171105T150000Z DTEND:20171105T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956083 DTSTART:20171107T150000Z DTEND:20171107T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956084 DTSTART:20171108T150000Z DTEND:20171108T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956085 DTSTART:20171109T150000Z DTEND:20171110T003000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956086 DTSTART:20171110T150000Z DTEND:20171110T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956087 DTSTART:20171111T150000Z DTEND:20171111T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956088 DTSTART:20171112T150000Z DTEND:20171112T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956089 DTSTART:20171114T150000Z DTEND:20171114T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956090 DTSTART:20171115T150000Z DTEND:20171115T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956091 DTSTART:20171116T150000Z DTEND:20171117T003000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956092 DTSTART:20171117T150000Z DTEND:20171117T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956093 DTSTART:20171118T150000Z DTEND:20171118T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956094 DTSTART:20171119T150000Z DTEND:20171119T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956095 DTSTART:20171121T150000Z DTEND:20171121T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956096 DTSTART:20171122T150000Z DTEND:20171122T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956098 DTSTART:20171124T150000Z DTEND:20171124T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956099 DTSTART:20171125T150000Z DTEND:20171125T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956100 DTSTART:20171126T150000Z DTEND:20171126T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956101 DTSTART:20171128T150000Z DTEND:20171128T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956102 DTSTART:20171129T150000Z DTEND:20171129T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956103 DTSTART:20171130T150000Z DTEND:20171201T003000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956104 DTSTART:20171201T150000Z DTEND:20171201T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956105 DTSTART:20171202T150000Z DTEND:20171202T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956106 DTSTART:20171203T150000Z DTEND:20171203T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956107 DTSTART:20171205T150000Z DTEND:20171205T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956108 DTSTART:20171206T150000Z DTEND:20171206T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956109 DTSTART:20171207T150000Z DTEND:20171207T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956110 DTSTART:20171208T150000Z DTEND:20171208T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956111 DTSTART:20171209T150000Z DTEND:20171209T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956112 DTSTART:20171210T150000Z DTEND:20171210T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956113 DTSTART:20171212T150000Z DTEND:20171212T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956114 DTSTART:20171213T150000Z DTEND:20171213T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956115 DTSTART:20171214T150000Z DTEND:20171214T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956116 DTSTART:20171215T150000Z DTEND:20171215T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956117 DTSTART:20171216T150000Z DTEND:20171216T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956118 DTSTART:20171217T150000Z DTEND:20171217T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956119 DTSTART:20171219T150000Z DTEND:20171219T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956120 DTSTART:20171220T150000Z DTEND:20171220T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956121 DTSTART:20171221T150000Z DTEND:20171221T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956122 DTSTART:20171222T150000Z DTEND:20171222T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956123 DTSTART:20171223T150000Z DTEND:20171223T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T144230Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2956124 DTSTART:20171224T150000Z DTEND:20171224T190000Z DESCRIPTION:Silsila consists of several photographic series and videos by a rtist Sama Alshaibi. Named for the Arabic word silsila\, or “link\,” t he exhibition is meant to represent the joining of individuals to one anot her\, humans with the natural world\, and the self to the divine. \n\nInsp ired by the fourteenth-century explorer and scholar Ibn Batūtah\, Alshaib i retraced his journeys through the Middle East\, North Africa\, and the M aldives—a group of Southeast Asian islands threatened by rising sea leve ls. Recording sublime desert terrains and vast skies of countries such as Egypt\, Morocco\, and Palestine\, Alshaibi presents the feminine form—is olated among these spare landscapes—as a metaphor for humanity and the n atural world in jewel-like colors\, geometric patterning\, mirroring\, and symmetry to reference the formal qualities of Islamic art traditions. \n\ nInformed by her own biography—from her birth in Basra\, Iraq\, in 1973 to parents of Palestinian and Iraqi descent to her transition from politic al refugee to American citizen—Alshaibi’s work provokes contemporary q uestions about borders\, migration\, and environmental demise in relation to the human body. \n\nSama Alshaibi is currently chair and professor of p hotography and video art at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She was a warded the Fulbright Scholar Fellowship as part of a residency at the Pale stine Museum in Ramallah\, Palestine.\n\nThis exhibition was organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale\, Arizona. Its pre sentation at Cornell was coordinated by Andrea Inselmann\, curator of mode rn and contemporary art at the Johnson\, and generously supported by the J arett F. and Younghee Kim-Wait Fund for Contemporary Islamic and Middle Ea stern Arts. GEO:42.450729;-76.486069 LOCATION:Johnson Museum of Art SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: Silsila URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sama_alshaibi_silsila CATEGORIES:Exhibit CATEGORIES:Exhibition END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR