Lena Kassicieh, In between Worlds: Al Buraq Book

Islamic texts hardly describe Al-Buraq; one Qur’anic verse, sparse hadith. Yet artists across centuries have imagined this celestial creature elaborately: Persian miniatures, Senegalese glass, Indonesian puppets, Palestinian murals.

Lena Kassicieh's new visual anthropology book ‘In Between Worlds: Al-Buraq’ asks: what happens when thousands of artists fill the same scriptural silence? What does this composite creature, part human, part animal, part divine, reveal about how communities imagine transcendence, identity, resistance?

Lena Kassicieh is a Palestinian-American anthropologist, ceramicist and multidisciplinary artist. Her work is multidisciplinary and experimental in its nature, including illustrations, ceramics, collages, sketchbooks, acrylic paintings and photographs. Playfulness is a key element throughout her creative practice; she explores color, shape, form, texture, and a sense of spontaneous composition throughout her creative practice.

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