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  • Typographic Matchmaking book & cd

    Typographic Matchmaking book & cd - 

    Typographic Matchmaking book and CD with Arabic fonts

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  • Arabic Type Specimen book cover

    Arabic Type Specimen book cover - 

    Arabic Type Specimen book cover
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    Samandal Comics

    Quarterly tri-lingual comics magazine from the Middle East

    Hatem Imam - The comic book, in its present day form, is regarded as an imported medium to the Arab world. Samandal (Salamander in Arabic), a ...
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    Tarikh-fann-al-tiba`a fi al-mashreq

    History of the art of printing in the Arab east

    Dr Geoffrey Roper - لويس شيخو. تاريخ فن الطباعة في المشرق. طبعة ثانية، بيروت: دار المشرق، ١٩٩٥ ...
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    الببليوجرافيا التحليلية

    دراسة في أوائل المطبوتعات العربية

    Dr Geoffrey Roper - جيهان محمود السيد الإسكندرية: دار الثقافة العلمية، ٠٠٠ ٢ Translated Title : ...
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    Phaidon

    Iman Raad - "Covering all manifestations of printed graphics, this generously illustrated volume presents the posters, books, magazines, ...
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    Susan Hefuna | Pars Pro Toto

    Hans Ulrich Obrist, editor

    Susan Hefuna - Editor: Hans Ulrich Obrist Texts by: Hans Ulrich Obrist, Tayeb Salih, Adonis Flexcover ca 24,5 x 29,5 cm In each book: handpainted ...
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    L'écriture arabe en question: les projets de l'Académie de Langue Arabe du Caire de 1938 à 1968.

    MEYNET, Roland. Beirut: Dar el-Machreq, 1971. 142 pp.

    Dr Geoffrey Roper - A systematic and well illustrated account of more than 200 abortive schemes for modifying the Arabic script to meet the needs of ...
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    Abdallah Zakher, philosophe, théologien et fondateur de l'imprimerie arabe en Orient: son époque, sa vie, ses œuvres.

    KAHALE, Joseph Elie.

    Dr Geoffrey Roper - Paris. 2000. 146 pp. عبد الله زاخر: مبتكر المطبعة العربية جوزيف إلياس كحّالة مركز ...
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    Typographia Arabica

    the development of Arabic printing as illustrated by Arabic type specimens.

    Dr Geoffrey Roper - KREK, Miroslav. Waltham (USA): Brandeis University Library, 1971. iii, 43 pp.
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    2Arabesque

    Graphic Design from the Arab World and Persia

    eps51 - Authors: Ben Wittner, Sascha Thoma, Nicolas Bourquin Release: April 2008 Available Soon! Price: € 44,00 / $ 65,00 / £ 33,00 ...
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    The beginnings of printing in the Near and Middle East: Jews, Christians and Muslims.

    Edited by Lehrstuhl für Türkische Sprache, Geschichte und Kultur, Universität Bamberg / Staatsbibliothek Bamberg.

    Dr Geoffrey Roper - Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2001. 102 pp. Numerous illustrations (some in colour). ISBN: 3-447-04417-9
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