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“Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet,”
two-hour documentary featuring calligraphy by Mohamed Zakariya —
aired on PBS stations on December 18, 2002
“Works
of Devotion,” Andover Newton Theological School — group
show, Fall 2002
“Word and Worship: Approaching Islam through Art,”
Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill —
on view, August 15-December 29, 2002; workshop, October 24
“Reflections at a Time of Transformation” —
Sept. 11 commemorative event, Asma Society for Islamic Culture and Arts,
Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, January 19, 2002
Detroit Institute of Art — lecture and
demonstrations, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999
Milwaukee Art Museum — lecture and demonstration,
2002
Litrugical Arts Festival, Springfield, Ill. —
keynote speech and group show — 2000
“Islamic Calligraphy: A Living Art,” Dadian
Gallery, Washington, D.C. — group show, 2000
Albuquerque Museum, demonstration — 2000
“Two Sacred Paths: Christianity and Islam,”
Washington National Cathedral — exhibition and presentation,
1998
Yildiz Sarayi, Istanbul — group shows, 1997 and
1990; icazet (diploma) ceremonies, 1997 and 1988
Kazema Festival for Islamic Heritage, Kuwait —
group exhibit, 1996
“Faces of Faith,” Klutznick National Jewish
Museum of B'Nai B'Rith, Washington, D.C. — group show, 1994
“Islamic Art and Patronage,”Walters Gallery,
Baltimore — demonstration, 1993.
“Al-Andalus: The Art of Islamic Spain,”
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York — demonstration, 1992
“Images of Paradise in Islamic Art,” Hood
Museum of Art, Dartmouth College — calligraphic installations,
1991
American Arab Affairs Council — one-man exhibit
that toured 12 U.S. cities, 1989-90
International Festival of Arabic Calligraphy and Islamic
Ornament, Baghdad — group exhibition, 1988
U.S. Information Agency — exhibitions and
presentations in Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, Abu Dhabi, and Saudi Arabia,
1986
Qatar Ministry of Information — exhibition and
teaching at the Doha Free Art School, 1983
In addition, Zakariya has given workshops and lectures
for such institutions as the Exxon Corporation and the Asia Society
in New York; and, in Washington, the Smithsonian Institution, the
Middle East Institute, and the National Library of Medicine at the
National Institutes of Health and at a number of colleges and
universities, including Harvard, Princeton, Georgetown, George
Washington, DePaul, and Washington and Lee. His work has also been
shown at the Renwick Gallery and the S. Dillon Ripley Center of the
Smithsonian Institution and at Hofstra University, and one of his
works is in the collection of the Calligraphy Museum of Turkpetrol
Vakfi in Istanbul, one of the finest private museums of Islamic
calligraphic art in the world.
Zakariya’s instruments include an astrolabe and
celestial globe in the Aramco Science Museum in Dhahran, Saudi
Arabia; a sundial in the National Museum of Qatar; an astrolabe in
the International Airport at Jidda, Saudi Arabia; a standard-time
sundial in the Time Museum in Rockford, Illinois; and a cross staff
in the Adler Planetarium in Chicago. In 1991, two Zakariya astrolabes
were exhibited at the Ornamental Metal Museum in Memphis, Tenn. In
1996, he re-engraved the sundial in the Haupt Garden of the
Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
His wood turning has been exhibited at the American
Craft Museum in New York in 1983 and was featured in Fine
Woodworking magazine and in the Fine Woodworking Biennial
Design Books for 1977 and 1979.
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