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Nadine Touma
Artist, writer, and filmmaker who lives and works in Beirut
She has created numerous installations, literary works, and artworks addressing issues that range from human rights to hymenoplasty. Touma has participated in exhibitions in Lebanon, Egypt, and...
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Organization:
Stichting Mediamatic
Mediamatic is a cultural institution in Amsterdam.
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Book khatt kufi & kaffiya Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès 1 Aug 2007
Typographic Matchmaking
This book is out of print
Copyright©2007. Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares Published by BIS Publishers, Amsterdam. 2007 ISBN 978-90-6369-124-0 A new edition is available for ordering from Khatt Books. Click here to place your...
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Habib Khoury
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Design talk & latest news
Articles on typography and visual communication in the Middle East
The Khatt Network for Arabic Typography is a project of the Khatt Foundation, designed as a platform for discussing issues pertaining to design and visual communication in and about the Middle East.
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Mouneer Al-Shaarani
Calligrapher, designer and writer
Mounir Al- Shaarani is calligrapher, designer and writer, living and working in Cairo, Egypt. Born in Syria and graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Damascus ( 1977). He studied under the great...
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Lara Assouad
Arab type and graphic designer
Lara Assouad is an independent graphic and type designer with a particular interest in the relation between Arabic and Latin writing systems and multicultural identities. She has researched Arabic...
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Exhibition
Orientalia : Lead, Light and Letters
Exhibition on Arabo-Dutch Type Design from the 17th-21st Century.
A timely and positive way to promote cultural exchange and understanding between the West and the Arab world, and put the topic in broader historical and cultural context. This traveling exhibition
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Conference American University in Dubai
The Kitabat conference
The first major Arabic calligraphy and typography conference in the Middle East.
Dubai, 5 - 8 April 2006 Hosted by the Visual Communication Department at the American University in Dubai, in partnership with the Khatt Foundation (Center for Arabic Typography, Amsterdam) and...