DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Doha’s Museum of Islamic Art, or MIA, provides visitors with ... culture and that of the larger region. The World Cup host has faced intense criticism over rights issues ...

The Museum of Islamic Art’s scheduled reopening, seven weeks before the first matches of the FIFA World Cup, will be the unofficial ... including 556 pieces of jewelry — will be a ...

Qatar unveiled on Tuesday its landmark Museum of Islamic Art after an 18-month renovation ahead of the World Cup in a bid to be a "showcase" for the Arab world. "We are the biggest Museum of ...

One of the most important museums in the Middle East, the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) in Doha ... small oil-rich state ahead of the Fifa World Cup launching in November. The galleries will ...

The Museum of Islamic Art, Doha/Qatar Museums. Photo by Chrysovalantis Lamprianidis Other jewelry highlights include: a necklace made of carved niello, or blackened, silver with coral, amazonite ...

A piece at the entrance to “Across Asia: Arts of Asia and the Islamic World” encapsulates this recently revamped floor of the Walters Art Museum ... metalwork, jewelry and manuscripts ...

For many of the visitors descending on Qatar for The World Cup, Doha’s Museum of Islamic Art provides a peek into diverse aspects ... Items on display include jewelry, manuscripts of the Quran, the ...

Like tiles in a mosaic, the collection in Doha’s Museum of Islamic Art, or MIA, provides visitors with a peek into diverse aspects of Muslim heritage, art and craftmanship with items spanning ...