The Love and Etiquette Foundation is keen to promote established and emerging Muslim artistic talent. The featured artists and speakers have all successfully presented their work through the L&E Foundation and we are delighted to receive their continued support and commitment to our efforts.
 Peter Sanders
www.petersanders.com
Peter Sanders, internationally recognised as one of the worlds leading photographer of the Islamic World. The photographer began his career in the mid-1960’s covering Londons’' seminal rock and roll scene, capturing now legendary music icons in a collection that is considered a classic by collectors.
Towards the end of the 1970’s, Sanders’ attention turned inward which set him on a spiritual search that took him to India and led him in the end to the Muslim world. All the while the photographer captured his surroundings on film, creating a striking and disparate record of the last vestiges of traditional Muslim societies in transition. Sanders’ own deep commitment to and love of traditional Islamic culture has brought him into intimate contact with people and places few photographers reach.
“My photography has always been an extension of my life,” he said. “Photography is a wonderful process - a gift from God - that has allowed me to learn so much about myself and the world around me. Its like chasing a moment, trying to capture a beautiful bird in flight.”
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 Haji Noor Deen
www.hajinoordeen.com
Born in 1963 in eastern China’s Shangdong Province bordering the Yellow Sea, Haji Noor Deen lectures on the art of Arabic calligraphy at the Islamic College in Zhenzhou, where he has also established a correspondence course to enable students from all areas of China to study Arabic calligraphy. In addition, he researches Islamic culture at the Henan Academy of Sciences. In 1997, Haji Noor Deen was the first Chinese Muslim to be awarded the Egyptian Certificate of Arabic Calligraphy and to be admitted as a member of the Association of Egyptian Calligraphy.
Haji Noor Deen’s extraordinary mastery and genius in the art of Arabic calligraphy along with his unique ability to spectacularly deliver his craft to an audience has brought him lecture and workshop invitations from some of the most renowned and prestigious institutions around the world, including: Harvard University, Cambridge University, University of California-Berkley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Pennsylvania, Tufts University, the Bukhari Institute and the Zaytuna Institute, amongst a few.
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 Hakim Archuletta
www.hakimarchuletta.com
Hakim Archuletta has worked within the healing arts profession for over 30 years. His interest in medicine and natural health and the study of God’s Creation began as a child. His first formal studies were in the Fine Arts which he studied in the 60’s in Berkeley where his expertise ranged from graphic arts to theater, cinema and ethnomusicology.
He has worked with young people for many years and taught science on a high school level for six years in a very “hands on” method and worked on curriculum that is age appropriate and spiritually based in science for young people. More recently he began to focus on trauma and was trained in the methods of Dr. Peter Levine and others. Today he lectures and teaches classes and workshops nationally.
He has conducted workshops and lectured at University of California Berkeley, Harvard, Wellesley, Stanford, UCLA, University of Houston and many others. He addressed and led the New Mexico State Congress in opening prayers after 9/11, writes, reads and organizes poetry readings. He has students and patients across the world.
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 Mohammed Ali
www.aerosolarabic.com
AerosolArabic is the artwork of artist Mohammed Ali, born and raised in Birmingham, UK. His work takes the urban street art form of graffiti and fuses it with the grace and eloquence of Islamic script. His art is described as, challenging the oft-heard term, “clash of civilisations” and by taking the best of both worlds, he creates a style which he refers to as “urban spiritual art”.
Mohammed Ali has been involved with the arts from a young age, and was inspired by the New York graffiti movement from the early eighties. While at university he studied Multimedia Graphics, and then went onto work in the computer games industry.
However, It was through his rediscovery of his faith that he began to merge the graffiti style with Islamic art, and began to use his creative ability to connect different communities. His work is appreciated across the globe, from the USA to the UAE, and has exhibited his work as well as creating his unique spiritual public murals across the globe. His work has been reported by international media, as a “bridge of understanding between faith communities.”
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 Soraya Syed
www.artofthepen.com
Soraya Syed Sanders was born and raised in London. Of mixed Pakistani-French origin, Soraya returned to the UK after completing her apprenticeship and receiving the icazetname (Islamic Calligraphy Diploma) in Istanbul. She attended the Arts Foundation at Central St. Martin’s, London. She read Arabic and History of Art & Archaeology at The School of Oriental and African Studies, and in 2001 graduated from the Masters programme in Visual Islamic and Traditional Arts at The Prince's School of Traditional Arts, London. Her written and visual work has been published and exhibited in the UK and abroad. She now resides in west London with her husband and two daughters.
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 Lateefa Spiker
www.lateefaspiker.com
Lateefa Spiker, 26, was brought up by parents who converted to Islam. She has lived in Texas, Granada, New Mexico, Jordon, Cairo and Morocco, and now works from her studio in East London. From a young age her works where inspired by these experiences observing scenes of extraordinary natural beauty, diverse cultures and architectural wonders. Lateefa’s work is of great significance today, she is well placed to view the clash of civilizations on the world stage, having spent her life observing the differences and similarities between her religion and her cultural roots, feeling first-hand the ache of non-identity. The struggle to find her place within an often-contradictory environment triggered her interest in our true nature, stripped of culture and of individuality. Lateefa’s current works employ primordial imagery in its barest of forms.
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 Amina Malik
www.aminamalik.com
Amina Malik, 25, born and raised in London with Pakistani and Indian origin, began to first consider taking steps into the world of art on a serious level in 2006 after taking encouragement and support from her family, and has since taken part in various exhibitions held in London.
Inspired by a message of Peace and drawn by the beauty of Arabic; the freedom of expression in creativity; humans natural inclination towards compassion and the common desire and quest for a place of peace - not just the worldly kind, but the internal kind. Her paintings are connected to that place of felicity - an expression of conviction; a mirror of reflection; a part of sanity's equilibrium.
“I hope that by sharing my paintings it can help to encourage a positive thought; help to stir or awaken a feeling of something somewhere inside, be it the heart or the mind, but hopefully the soul”
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 Adam Williamson
www.adamwilliamson.com
Adam Williamson is a successful practicing artist having undertaken numerous prestigious commissions; he works as a Painter, Sculptor, Stone carver and Woodworker. He works from his workshop/studio in Hackney, London.
Adam worked and studied under skilled masters of art and craft around the globe. He acquired much of my tuition and experience by studying or working under masters from Turkey, Jordan and Pakistan. In 2006 he was the subject of a documentary when he traveled to Malaysia and Indonesia to investigating traditional design and woodcarving in that area.
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 Sue Palmer
www.suepalmer.co.uk
Sue Palmer, a former primary headteacher, is an independent writer and consultant on primary education, notably literacy. She has written over 200 books, TV programmes and software packages for children and teachers, and acted as an independent consultant to the DfES, National Literacy Trust, Basic Skills Agency, numerous educational publishers and the BBC.
Sue’s best-selling book Toxic Childhood: how modern life is damaging our children… and what we can do about it [Orion 2006] was her first for a more general audience, and helped spark a national debate about the nature of contemporary childhood. It was followed by a ‘self-help’ book for parents, Detoxing Childhood, and 21st Century Boys: how modern life can drive them off the rails, and how we can get them back on track, published in May 2009. She is regularly consulted by action groups and politicians, has spoken at conferences around the world, and was named among the top twenty most influential people in British education in the Evening Standard’s 2008 Influentials list.
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 Muiz Anwar
www.muiz.co.uk
Muiz Anwar was born, raised and educated in the industrial city of Manchester, where he currently works on various international, commercial and charitable projects through his own studio. His work is generally classified as graphic design, but is informed by his experience and skills in a variety of creative disciplines; illustration, art direction, advertising, photography, calligraphy, typography, product design, fine art and fashion. Islam provided a pivotal platform for Muiz to develop his working ethos and aesthetic.
Since graduating he has been exploring the potential to organically evolve and contemporise the Arabic language typographically, working with two of the world’s leading typographic estates, Dalton Maag in London and the infamous FontShop in Berlin.
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