To nip this in the bud before we get into this blog too deeply, I’ll say that I am not, by profession, a photographer. Do I enjoy taking photos and capturing the world around me–certainly–I love it in fact. By trade, I am a radiologist, but I am more than that. I am a...
When we seek to study and understand other cultures, where do we turn? Often, we look to a culture’s history to learn more about it–an understanding of the origins and beliefs of a group of people often sheds light on what that culture means to the individuals within...
At the heart of the wide realm of art lies visual art. While the field of “art” encompasses more than what I can even list here–television, movies, music, sculpture, theater, performance, even martial arts–many think immediately of visual arts such as paintings or...
You’re probably reading this on a computer screen, sitting inside of your home, under a roof that you pay for that shields you from the harsh cold of winter, the oppressive heat of summer, the wind and rain and sleet and hail that would otherwise present quite a...
Lebanese Art I moved back to Lebanon somewhat recently, returning to the country in which I was born and spent a good deal of my youth. When you’ve grown up in a country and experienced it first-hand, sometimes it’s easy to take it for granted. When I left Lebanon as...
