Projects
Layla and Majnun: A Forbidden Love
Artists
Ahmad Khalili
Farshid Mesghali
Torabi
2006
Wereldmuseum Rotterdam
Willemskade 25, 3016 DM
Rotterdam, Netherlands
This installation presents various artistic expressions and interpretations of the love story of Layla and Majnun. It is a story of an unconditional yet impossible love. The story’s popularity stretches throughout the Middle East, North Africa to India and Indonesia, and is especially prominent in Turkish and Persian culture.



