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Maayan Ziv

  Maayan Ziv is a freelance photographer whose work focuses on black and white emotive portraiture, editorial fashion, and gritty street scenes. She studied Media at Ryerson University and her background in media communications, art and theatre influences her work. Born with Muscular Dystrophy,

Luke Anderson

Luke Anderson is a licensed professional structural engineer at a leading engineering firm in Toronto and co-founder of StopGap Foundation, which raises awareness about barriers in our built environment that prevent many people from enjoying the spaces that they desire.    Luke graduated from

Joel Dembe

  Joel Dembe is a Paralympian (London 2012), and a two-time Canadian National Wheelchair Tennis Champion. Tennis has allowed him to travel all over the world to compete. He is currently training for the 2015 Toronto Parapan American Games. A benign spinal tumour removed at birth caused partial

Carolyn Pioro

  Carolyn Pioro is a freelance editor and writer living in Toronto. In high school she was a star field hockey player and represented Ontario in trampoline at the national championships. At the University of Toronto she rowed competitively, winning Ontario titles and placing second at Boston’s

Joanne Smith

Joanne Smith is a graduate of the Institute of Holistic Nutrition in Toronto, holds a degree in psychology from York University, as well as a diploma in radio & television broadcasting from Seneca College.  Joanne has dedicated her career to raising awareness of the issues concerning people

Russell Owen Winkelaar

My name is Russell Owen Winkelaar. I am a dreamer, a lover, an explorer, an actor, an artist, advocate, and a helper. It was two weeks before my fourth birthday, March 14th, 1986, when I became a T-6 paraplegic. I was asleep in the back seat next to my baby sister. My Uncle was driving and my

Group 1: Introduction

Cairo Under Wraps: Early Islamic Textiles  What we know about textiles from the early days of Islam comes primarily from Egypt, where fragile materials—linen, cotton, wool, silk—have been preserved in the dry soil as burial shrouds. This exhibition displays textiles from the first six

Group 2: Early Examples

The Coptic Legacy  Christian Egyptians were known as Copts. They continued to dominate the textile industry after the Muslim conquest of Egypt, working in the materials and techniques most familiar to them. Imported silks from Sasanian Iran and Byzantium, woven on the drawloom, were copied in

Group 3: Abbasid & Early Fatimid tiraz

Abbasid tiraz Arrival of the Fatimids in Cairo The first Muslim dynasty, the Umayyad, fell to the Abbasids in 750, and the capital moved from Damascus (Syria) to Baghdad (Iraq). Here the Abbasid Caliph ruled an empire stretching from North Africa to Afghanistan. The Caliph’s display of wealth and

Group 4: Embedded scripts

Embedded scripts During the later Fatimid period more attention was paid to embedding the inscription within an artistic background. Tendrils grow from the letters and sprout buds (floriated kufic). Intricate arabesque designs of rhythmically scrolling and interlacing foliage often frame birds and