{"id":611,"date":"2013-04-30T21:09:56","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T05:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/?p=611"},"modified":"2013-05-02T12:49:38","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T20:49:38","slug":"abu-dhabi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/news\/abu-dhabi\/","title":{"rendered":"Abu Dhabi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_612\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/AbuDhabi-Grand-Mosque.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-612\" class=\"size-large wp-image-612\" alt=\"Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi.\" src=\"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/AbuDhabi-Grand-Mosque-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/AbuDhabi-Grand-Mosque-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/AbuDhabi-Grand-Mosque-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/AbuDhabi-Grand-Mosque.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-612\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi. Photo \u00a9 IFF Archives.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>IFF Director Margaret Wertheim has just returned from an exploratory trip to Abu Dhabi where discussions are underway about the possibility of doing a Satellite Reef of our\u00a0<em>Crochet Coral Reef<\/em> project in the United Arab Emirates. Islamic culture has had a long and deep engagement with mathematical tessellation patterns, which traditional artisans realize in a vast array of media, from terra-cotta mosaics to relief carved marble and exquisitely detailed inlaid stone-work. Here in the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, Islamic engagement with tessellations is magnificently on display. This is one of the mosque&#8217;s 82 domes, the foremost of which are adorned with some of the world&#8217;s largest \u00a0and most intricate chandeliers. Islamic tessellations are featured in the IFF&#8217;s current <a href=\"http:\/\/theiff.org\/exhibits\/making-space.html\"><strong>Making Space<\/strong><\/a> exhibition, which has mathematical tilings as one of its core themes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IFF Director Margaret Wertheim has just returned from an exploratory trip to Abu Dhabi where discussions are underway about the possibility of doing a Satellite Reef of our\u00a0Crochet Coral Reef project in the United Arab Emirates. Islamic culture has had a long and deep engagement with mathematical tessellation patterns, which traditional artisans realize in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":615,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}