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on April 09, 2009

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my favorite lecture , Tengku Sabri Ibrahim

He and his wife first met at the Department of Fine Art of the then- Institute Teknologi Mara (ITM). Mastura (his wife) was a painting major, whilst Tengku Sabri's focus was sculpture. They graduated in 1986 and married a year later. Tengku Sabri recalls: "At the time, I was living in Ulu Klang with my uncle and a few friends. In 1988, we returned to my hometown, Jerteh, in Terengganu." There, Tengku Sabri's father, a Tokoh Kraf Negara (Seni Ukir Halus) or National Craft Master (Fine Carving), would play a pivotal role in shaping some of his earliest works, notably the Teleng series featuring wooden deconstructions of the traditional Malay keris hilt. "I shared a studio with my late father, who specialized in making keris hilts," says Tengku Sabri. As a teenager, he was picking up woodcarving skills and the essence of craftsmanship from his father. "In the 80s, I was students were encouraged to look back into my culture," says Tengku Sabri. He re...

Media Anthropology ( Task 1 -Week 1 )

Definitions of Media Media - Films, tapes and other audio-visual materials that require the use of special listening or viewing equipment. Media: Any format for information storage that requires special listening or viewing equipment microfilm, microfiche , videotape CD-ROMs. The beginning of human communication through artificial channels, i.e. not vocalizatio n or gestures, goes back to ancient cave paintings , drawn maps, and writing . In the arts , media (plural of medium ) are the materials and techniques used by an artist to produce a work. In drawing , "media" refers to the type of held dry tool used and the base onto which it is transferred. The "held dry tool" normally means a pencil, or stick medium, referred to as a " crayon ". Small particles of broken-off stick medium are transferred to a base or plane of production on which the artwork is produced. A typical base is paper, but canvas and other surfaces can also be used. In pa...

Famous Kurdish people

Salahuddin Ayubi Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb (Kurdish: سەلاحەدینی ئەییووبی /Selahedînê Eyûbî; Arabic: صلاح الدين يوسف بن أيوب ‎ ; Turkish: Selahaddin Eyyûbî) (1137/1138 – 4 March 1193), better known in the Western world as Saladin, was the first Sultan of Egypt and Syria and the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty. A Muslim of Kurdish origin, Saladin led the Muslim opposition to the European Crusaders in the Levant. At the height of his power, his sultanate included Egypt, Syria, Mesopotamia, Hejaz, Yemen and other parts of North Africa. Originally sent to Fatimid Egypt by his Zengid lord Nur ad-Din in 1163, Saladin climbed the ranks of the Fatimid government by virtue of his military successes against Crusader assaults on its territory and his personal closeness to the caliph al-Adid. When Saladin's uncle Shirkuh died in 1169, al-Adid appointed Saladin vizier, a rare nomination of a Sunni Muslim to such an important position in the Shia Muslim-led caliphate. During his te...

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