Culture & Arts

The engineering and technical teams at the Holy Shrine of Imam Ali, peace be upon him, in Holy Najaf, have started developing “Ya’sub al-Din Educational and Recreational Area” as part of a massive scientific, cultural, and intellectual project. This project…

The holy city of Najaf has hosted the 12th International Comprehensive Shopping Exhibition and Festival, which aims at enhancing trade exchange and global communication. Holy Najaf’s Governor, Youssef Kanaoui, stated during the opening of the exhibition that “the International Comprehensive…

Imam Ridha Holy Shrine has gifted a digitized copy of a rare Quranic manuscript to the treasury of Al-Abbas Holy Shrine in Holy Karbala. Salah al-Siraj, the director of the Manuscript Imaging and Cataloging Center affiliated with the Intellectual and…

The Iraqi calligrapher and researcher in Islamic arts, Ali Hayder Al-Hasani, affirmed that Imam Ali, peace be upon him, was the first to establish the script of the Noble Quran in the Islamic world. Al-Hasani’s statement came during a lecture…

Imam Hussain Museum has displayed a collection of precious historical artifacts, including a rare manuscript believed to be attributed to Imam Zain al-Abidin, peace be upon him. Hussein Rahman Abdullah, the Maintenance Department manager at Imam Hussein Museum, said in…

The UK-based “Stop Uyghur Genocide” campaign has said that Uyghur Muslims in occupied Xinjiang region continue to write poetry in their original language, challenging cultural erosion under the Chinese Communist Party regime. The campaign’s statement came following the World Poetry…

In celebration of the holy month of Ramadan, a special exhibition was held in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, to display beautiful and rare Holy Qurans. The exhibition features 42 rare Qurans that are gilded and decorated, emphasizing the grandeur of…

The European Fine Arts Exhibition in the Netherlands intends to sell a rare Quranic manuscript for one million euros. The manuscript is a page from the Holy Quran in Hijazi script dating back to the first Islamic century. The manuscript…

The 2nd Annual Quranic Exhibition was opened by the Quran Scientific Institute, affiliated to Al-Abbas Holy Shrine, at the University of Kufa as part of the Quranic project for Iraqi university and institute students for the academic year 2023-2024. The…

Al-Abbas Islamic Center in the United Kingdom considers the establishment of a vibrant spiritual community based on the values and practices of true Shia Islamic faith as one of its main missions since its founding in 1973. The centre stated…