 Sculpture 

Although best known for her embroidered canvases, Amer also works with printing, drawing, sculpture and installation.For example, in 2001, Ghada Amer created "Encyclopedia of Pleasure", a sculptural installation that features fifty-four boxes, covered in canvas, and embroidered with texts about female beauty and sexuality.The installation shares a name with a twelfth-century Arabic text by Ali Ibn Nasr Al Katib, a literary and medical manual that catalogues sexual pleasure for both men and women that was produced during a progressive period of Islamic culture, but the Encyclopedia of Pleasure is forbidden today.