Progressive Education - Personalized Learning

Indian Artist, Archana Bhardwaj offered a floral Workshop and showed participants how to create beautiful loose-style floral artwork inspired by different types of flowers in Qatar.

Research Fellow Suzanne Ghadanfar taught participants about the six-fold design and explored together the ‘Rings of Diminishing Squares’ diagram.

Research Fellow Suzanne Ghadanfar taught participants how to draw the magnificent Islamic geometric patterns in Musherib mosque in Doha, Qatar.

Syrian architect and urban sketcher Mr. Ahed Alkhatib introduced members to the skills of architectural drawing on location. Using the fantastical architecture of Sheikh Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani’s historical palace as a source of inspiration.

Syrian architect and urban sketcher Mr. Ahed Alkhatib introduced members to the skills of architectural drawing on location. Using the fantastical architecture of the Desert Rose building as a source of inspiration.

Research Fellow Suzanne Ghadanfar introduced the Islamic patterns of Girih Puzzle

Mexican artist Ms. Ricardo Hinojosa engaged participants in a series of geometric paper-folding exercises meant to develop their creative and technical skills. Over the course of three sessions, participants explored a variety of Islamic patterns brought to life by a series of alternating folds.

British artists Ms. Adam Williamson taught members how to draw the sublime 16-fold rosette carved into the walls of the Court of Lions in Alhambra Palace, Granada Spain, using a compass.

Iraqi artists Mr. Ahmad Awad introducing club members to the magnificent architecture and interior design of Souq Waqif Art Centre and teach them the basic techniques of oil painting.  

Social sciences were created in aftermath of a century of religious wars in Europe, which demonstrated to Europeans that religion does not offer viable methods to organize society. Rejection of God, Judgment, and the Afterlife led to grounding of social sciences on the assumptions that man is just another animal, with pursuit of pleasure as the only goal. Furthermore, society consists of competing groups operating in an environment of war of all against all, with survival of the fittest being the only moral principle.