Does Islamic art exist?
” Hend Al Moghunni stared at the sentence on her art-history final exam. The freshman fashion student at Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar thought, Is that even a question?! But after a year of being challenged to analyze and argue, she knew her professor didn’t just want her to validate Muslim art. “Of course Islamic art exists, but I realized it has become so blended with other influences,” recalls Al Moghunni, now 25 and client manager at a Qatari design consultancy. “He was pushing me to see it from a different perspective.” Qatar, a tiny emirate where it’s still controversial to photograph females, is an unlikely place to find young women designing couture for the catwalk. But 10 years ago, Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al Missned, wife of the Islamic state’s emir, decided she wanted to provide women with educational and career paths that extended beyond traditional jobs as teachers and secretaries. She challenged VCU, the top visual arts school in the Unite
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