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Event: khatt kufi & kaffiya
From Amulet to Art Nouveau
24Aug 2007The history of printing in the Arab world and Europe is the story of a 500-year exchange of technology, imagery and design. The Arabs adopted printing long before Gutenberg, but did not use it for...
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Event: khatt kufi & kaffiya
Unfamiliar Territories, Arabic Type and Modern…
24Aug 2007Peter Bilak will speak about methodologies of approaching unfamiliar areas of work.
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Event: khatt kufi & kaffiya
Marhaba
24Aug 2007The Dutch government stimulates contact between groups of different backgrounds by establishing a House for Cultural Dialogue in the four main cities of the Netherlands. These ‘houses’ facilitate...
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Event: khatt kufi & kaffiya
On Activism, Design and Politics in the Arab World
24Aug 2007Politics, in the form of contemporary cultural resistance projects and in the history of Arab political posters, will be the subject of the presentation.
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Event: khatt kufi & kaffiya
The Clash of Motion Picture
24Aug 2007Talk and short video screening by Khaled D. Ramadan. Planet of the Arabs by video maker Jacki Salloum.
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Event: khatt kufi & kaffiya
Dangerous Lingerie and Other Mid East Street…
22Aug 2007The Arab street – its vibrancy, innovativeness, traditions of design and contemporary expression – has been obscured by geopolitical issues. Any attempt to deviate from the established line that the...
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Organization:
The Aga Khan Foundation
The Aga Khan Foundation is a non-denominational, international development agency established in 1967 by His Highness the Aga Khan.
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In defence of a remarkable exhibition
The Spirit & Life exhibition
It was rather surprising to find the Spirit & Life exhibition in London dismissed on the Khatt site as just "another Arabic cliché exhibition". In the first place it is not, and nowhere claims to be
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Nat Muller
independent curator and critic
Is an independent curator and critic based in Rotterdam when not roaming in the Middle East.
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Raymond Prucher
not hys elf
artist illustrator designer writer educator in other words desillustwrartucator
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animation film Edo Smitshuijzen
Persepolis, story of an Iranian childhood
An animated biography of an Iranian woman
Sometimes the story about important developments in the Arab world are best told by reports about personal experiences. And sometimes the narrative can be more poignant when represented in a simple...
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Event: Stichting Mediamatic
El HEMA Project
24Aug 20076Jan 2008What would an Arabic HEMA look like? Halal sausage? Arabic chocolate letters? Affordable high quality headscarves? 3 Palestinian scarfs (kaffia) for the price of 2? Tunics or Djballas? School...
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conference program
Khatt Kufi Kaffiya, the printable symposium…
Lectures are described in detail with timings and links to the speakers' biographies.
The symposium program has been evolving and includes topics of every aspect of contemporary Arabic visual culture and identity, going beyond the stereotypes of what is associated with Arabic culture...
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Brody Neuenschwander
Calligrapher and visual artist
Brody Neuenschwander is a calligrapher and text artist working in a variety of media. He has studied Arabic and Japanese calligraphy in order to create a new form of western calligraphy. He has...
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Zeina Maasri
Designer and professor of graphic design
Zeina Maasri is an Associate Professor of Graphic Design at the American University of Beirut and a practicing graphic designer. She has been conducting research since 2004 on the political posters...
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Khaled Ramadan
Born in Beirut in 1965, he is a curator, video documentary maker and a lecturer in new media aesthetics. His fields of specialties are visual culture aesthetics, multi-media studies and the history...
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Malu Halasa
Malu Halasa is an editor and journalist covering the culture and politics of the Middle East. She has co-edited Creating Spaces of Freedom; Culture in Defiance (2002), Kaveh Golestan: Recording the...
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Symposium Program
Khatt Kufi Kaffiya | Symposium on Arabic Visual Culture
We'll have the whole day to ourselves in the theatre of the brand new public library of Amsterdam (OBA) Admission and registration is from 9 on and the programme starts at 10:00 sharp. We'll have...
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New Arabic type design impresses Dutch lawyers…
El-HEMA Exhibition at Mediamatic
Good graphic design still creates a very powerful image. Sometimes even up to a level that it may mislead and subsequently embarrass captains of industry and top law firms.
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matthias hillner
Matthias Hillner was born in Germany, where he trained first in photography, then in visual design. He received his MA in Communication Art and Design at the Royal College of Art (RCA) in 2001, and...
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Conference
khatt kufi & kaffiya
24Aug 2007 -
Joost van Schendel
publisher
BULAAQ Publishing is a small, independent and non-religious publishing house. We publish only in Dutch on the Middle East, North Africa and Islam in the fields of history, language, politics, poetry