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.