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Academic Staff Members

31

Published Research Papers

Diverse Fields

Art Education, Calligraphy, Sculpture, Theatre

Lect. Dr. Awni Hadi Abboud

Published research in art education and teaching skills

1. The Effect of Art Education on Developing Children’s Skills.
2. Art Education Teaching Skills among Art Education Teachers.
3. Educational and Psychological Contents in Pupils’ Drawings.
4. Designing an In-Service Training Program for Art Education Teachers.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hussein Ali Jarmat

Published research in Arabic calligraphy, visual rhetoric, and artistic identity

1. Visual Rhetoric in the Structure of Calligraphic Compositions.
2. Design Variations in the Structures of Jali Thuluth Script by the Calligrapher Mustafa Raqim.
3. Art and Identity between Heritage and Modernity.
4. Pen Weight and the Diversity of Arabic Scripts.
5. Adapting the Digital Structure into Visual Rhetoric in Arabic Calligraphic Compositions.

Emeritus Prof. Dr. Mahmoud Ajami

Published research in sculpture, ancient art, Islamic ceramics, aesthetics, and civilizational arts

1. Pre-Islamic Sculpture in the Civilization of Southern Arabia.
2. Hellenistic Features of Sculpture in the Arabian Peninsula.
3. The Image of Gilgamesh and Enkidu: A Reading in the Dialectic of Their Characters in Ancient Iraqi Artworks - Selected Models.
4. The Structural, Decorative, and Aesthetic Design of Egyptian Mashrabiyas - The Museum of Islamic Art as a Model.
5. Sculpture in the Origin of the Mountain: Living Sculpture on Stone - Selected Models.
6. Aesthetics of Pottery Vessels in the Hassuna and Samarra Phases / Joint Research.
7. Aesthetics of the Human Form in Scenes Executed on Fatimid Islamic Ceramics / Joint Research.
8. The Aesthetics and Symbolism of Pictorial and Hieroglyphic Writing in the Artworks of Ancient Iraqi and Egyptian Civilizations: A Comparative Study / Joint Research.
9. Aesthetics of Decorative Composition in Seljuk Islamic Ceramics / Joint Research.
10. The Dialectic of Reality and Imagination in Michelangelo’s Sculptures / Joint Research.
11. The Sumerian Prayer Posture in Ancient Iraqi Artworks and Its Intertextuality with the Islamic Performance of Prayer / Joint Research.
12. Intellectual and Aesthetic Approaches to the Qur’anic Image in Renaissance Arts / Joint Research.
13. Mythical Thought and Its Representations in Buddha Statues / Joint Research.
14. Myth and Its Representations in Ancient Indian Sculpture / Joint Research.
15. The Problematic of Destruction and Reconstruction in Contemporary Sculpture / Joint Research.
16. Destructivism in Contemporary Formation / Joint Research.
17. Arabic Letter Formations in Contemporary Iraqi Sculpture / Joint Research.
18. The Civilizational Dimension of Formal Formulations in Contemporary Maghreb Sculpture / Joint Research.
19. Aesthetics of Expression in Contemporary Sudanese Sculpture / Joint Research.

Asst. Lect. Ali Hussein Sahib

Published research in theatre design, fine arts, and stage scenery

1. Constructing Space in Ali Al-Abadi’s Theatrical Texts: Proposed Designs.
2. Employing Fine Arts in the Design of Iraqi Theatrical Scenery.
3. Innovation in the Techniques of Theatrical Performance Space.

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