TARIQ DAJANI
PHOTOGRAPHY & PRINTMAKING

In May 2026, the Embassy of Mexico in Jordan, together with the Greater Amman Municipality, inaugurated a remarkable modern sculpture entitled "El Caballito"—meaning 'small horse' in Spanish—in the city of Amman. The sculpture, a horse’s head by the renowned Mexican sculptor Sebastián, was offered as a gift from the people of Mexico to the people of Jordan to mark fifty years of diplomatic relations between the two countries. A formal dedication ceremony was held that morning at Shibli...

I recently attended a wedding celebration at Borthwick Castle, just outside Edinburgh. It was one of those rare occasions when place, history, weather and atmosphere seemed to arrange themselves without effort. The castle stood above the landscape with quiet authority, ancient stone, restless sky, trees moving in the wind, and horses grazing below. Borthwick Castle by J M W Turner, 1818 Borthwick Castle is not merely picturesque. Built in the fifteenth century, it is one of Scotland’s great...

The ancient Islamic tradition of riding known as Furūsiyya (فروسية in Arabic), meaning “horsemanship”