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Secular Egyptians Find Solace in Islam; Women Respond to the Horrors of War With a New Interest in Religion
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Samah Tawa doesn't consider herself a devout Muslim. Nevertheless,
she wrapped a scarf over her freshly cut hair today, went to a local
community center and prayed.
"I needed to do this," said Tawa, a marketing manager who wore a
pinstripe suit and a cell phone hanging from her wrist. "I couldn't
live through this war without God."
Next to her, Azza Ibrahim, in jeans and a black-and-white striped
sports jacket, closed her eyes and bowed. Her mind grew still for the
first time all day, she said.
Ibrahim had spent the morning at her kitchen table, distraught
over the images she had seen of ...
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Chladni's legacy. (German physicist and inventor Ernst Friedrich Florens Chladni)
Magazine article from: R & D
; ...kaleidoscopic arrangements are known as Chladni figures. At the time, my concerns...With these processed pieces the Chladni patterns were somewhat degraded...at the Univ. of Gottingen, Ernst Friedrich Florens Chladni (1756-1827) was perhaps the...
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Visions the eye can't see. (experimental photography, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, California)
Magazine article from: Art in America
; ...in Susan Derges's use of the Chladni process. Invented by the 18th-century physicist Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni, this technique sets sand in...mystery that imbues the earlier Chladni pictures. By far the most primitive...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...painter, 1636; Jonathan Swift, author, 1667; Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni, scientist, 1756; William Farr, statistician...playwright, 1900; Edward John Eyre, explorer, 1901; Ernst Lubitsch, film director, 1947; Wilhelm Furtwangler...
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