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The Award winning Fresco Arabic font, designed by Khatt members Lara Assouad Khoury and Fred Smeijers. CONGRATULATIONS! Read more about it below.
The Khatt Foundation, Center for Arabic Typography is a non-profit organisation that aims to encourage new design developments and improve (typo)graphic communication in the Arab World. We strive to connect designers and visual artists, provide information about various resources, projects, news and events regarding this highly specialized field of visual communication. Join us, read, contribute, and meet colleagues. Learn more about the Khatt Foundation's activities and projects.
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AMAL O8 : Call for submissions
Call for submission for the International Euro-Arab Film Festival
- 25 Oct 08>31 Oct 08
Amal 08 International Euro-Arab Film Festival is currently accepting submissions for its VI edition.
Entry forms MUST BE SUBMITTED before 30 June 2008.
For information visit the festival website
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Fresco Arabic Wins TCD2 2008 Award
For excellence in Typeface Design
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29 July 08 18:00>22 Aug 08 17:30
TCD | 127 West 25th Street, 8th Flo or, New York (view on map) | T +1-212-633-8943 |
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Congratulations to our Khatt members Lara Assouad-Khoury and Fred Smeijers for their achievement!
The Fresco Arabic Font designed and developed by Lara Assouad-Khoury and Fred Smeijers, wins the Type Directors Club in New York's TDC2 2008 award for excellence in Typeface design.
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The winning entries for the TDC Competitions, TDC54 and TDC2 2008, in typographic and typeface design, will be published in a book Typography 29: the Annual of the Type Directors Club available at the end of 2008. The work will be exhibited at The One Club in New York, from Tuesday 29 July 2008 – Friday 22 August 2008.
Read more about the font design in the Projects: Typographic Matchmaking 01 section of this site.
Venue
The One Club, 21 East 26th Street (between Madison and Fifth Aves) 5th floor, New York. Monday – Thursday, 10:00 am – 5:30 pm; Friday, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Opening Date and Time
6:00–8:00pm Tuesday 29 July 200809.04.08, Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares | permalink |
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29 July 08 18:00>22 Aug 08 17:30
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Babylone
Exhibition at the Louvres in Paris
- 14 Mar 08>2 June 08
For the first time assembling works from all over the world, this exhibition seeks to reconcile Babylon’s history with its legend. It explores the various stages in the foundation of the ancient city and the extent of its influence, as well as the way in which the Babylonian myth grew out of its historical reality.
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This unprecedented exhibition brings together a rich and varied treasure trove of nearly 400 works, on loan from collections in 13 countries, with the aim of reconciling the legend of Babylon with its history. Spanning five millennia (from the end of the 2nd millennium B.C. to the beginning of the 20th century), it pays tribute both to the historical and cultural importance of this ancient city and the way in which its reality was later transformed into the mythical Babylon.
Curator(s) : Béatrice André-Salvini, Curator in Charge, Department of Near Eastern Antiquities (chief exhibition curator), and Sébastien Allard, Curator, Department of Painting, Musée du Louvre.
[excerpt text from Louvre's official website]
Exhibition website and information at mini-site.louvre.fr/babylone/EN/index.html30.03.08, Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares | permalink |
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History of Printing and Publishing in the Languages and Countries of the Middle East
Third International Symposium, a part of 24th Congress of the Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants (UEAI).
- 25 Sept 08>27 Sept 08
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Following two successful international symposia on The History of Printing and Publishing in the Languages and Countries of the Middle East, held at the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz (2002) and at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris (2005), we are now convening the third meeting on the same themes. This will take place in Leipzig, 25-27 September 2008, and it will form part of the 24th Congress of the Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants (UEAI). This Symposium, however, will not be confined to printing in Arabic and Muslim languages, but will, as before, cover all Middle Eastern languages and scripts. Click here for the official website of the symposium
There has been a good response to our Call for Papers, and the list is now closed. We have accepted proposals for contributions on printing and publishing in the following languages: Arabic, Armenian, Armeno-Turkish, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic, Kipchak, Kurdish, Pashto, Persian, Syriac, Tatar and Turkish;
and in the following countries: Afghanistan, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Iran, Iraq, Latin America & the Caribbean, Tatarstan, Tunisia, Turkey and Ukraine, as well as in the region generally.
Speakers are coming from Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Israel, Netherlands, Russia (Tatarstan), Tunisia, Turkey and USA. For a list of papers, with some abstracts, seeSymposium website contains, in addition to the information mentioned above, links to the two previous Symposia and to a range of other resources relating to printing history and typography.
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