{"id":553,"date":"2018-09-22T06:33:57","date_gmt":"2018-09-22T06:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/?p=553"},"modified":"2018-09-25T06:35:18","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T06:35:18","slug":"nihad-dukhan-calligraphy-display-taubman-health-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/2018\/09\/22\/nihad-dukhan-calligraphy-display-taubman-health-center\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor of Mechanical Engineering <strong>Nihad Dukhan<\/strong> will have his calligraphy designs on display in the collection, \u201cStrokes of Reed Pen: Arabic Calligraphy,\u201d at the Gifts of Art Gallery in the Taubman Health Center at the University of Michigan Hospital, 1500 E. Medical Center Drive in Ann Arbor, through Dec. 7.<\/p>\n<p>Dukhan\u2019s modern Arabic calligraphy designs have a cross-cultural and personal form. He also creates classical designs using natural ink on ahar paper and acrylic on canvas, with pure gold and gouache color geometric and vegetal ornamentations.<\/p>\n<p>Dukhan received his master\u2019s degrees in Arabic\/Islamic calligraphy in Istanbul and the U.S. after more than 15 years of\u00a0study. As a master of this time honored art tradition, he hopes to reach across cultural barriers and provide messages of oneness and shared values.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor of Mechanical Engineering Nihad Dukhan will have his calligraphy designs on display in the collection, \u201cStrokes of Reed Pen: Arabic Calligraphy,\u201d at the Gifts &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5],"tags":[211,213,212,209,186,99,210],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbwnTV-8V","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":555,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions\/555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}