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Culture, Nature, and Light: These elements provide the structure of the documentary film that explores the mind and heart of one of the world's master architects, Chinese-American I.M. Pei, while chronicling his latest creation: the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar. Already in his 90's, he embarked on another spectacular odyssey, perhaps his toughest yet. "Islamic architecture has a desert origin, and therefore it has a certain modesty I don't want to lose," Pei says in the film. The film visits the Alhambra and Cordoba in Spain, and Cairo in search of Pei's inspiration for the Qatar museum. The new museum has already been dubbed, when it opened in 2008, "The Louvre of the Middle East," and has been baptized an architectural world wonder, exposing one of the worlds most magnificent collections of Islamic art.

Portrait --- Musée --- Islam --- Doha --- Qatar --- Palais de l'Alhambra --- Cordoue --- Espagne --- Le Caire