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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. Join us as a member in this networked community and contribute your thoughts, articles and latest news on this site.
Just to get you started, here's a list of recent contributions below. Please email your articles and latest news to Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès.
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A series of interviews with people who play a role in the development of technology and design for the Arabic script.
Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares
3D Arabic letters at all sizes
Browse the playful and colorful collection of furniture and accessories that use the Arabic letters as 'building blocks' that…
Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares
A Stunning presentation by Bahia Shehab
Long live the right to stand up to injustice.
http://www.ted.com/talks/bahia_shehab_a_thousand_times_no.html
Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares
In an exclusive for the Italian edition of Rolling Stone, Alice Rawsthorn (the design critic for The New York Times ) and Paola…
event:
Trevi (Pg),
Palazzo Lucarini Contemporary
THE PEOPLE WANT TO OVERTHROW THE REGIME
At three in the morning, on February 12th, 2011 at Midan al-Tahrir in Cairo, while the…
event:
Dubai,
ART DUBAI
Presentation - Film screening - Book signing
19
Mar
2011
13:30
Art Park Talks on Saturday 19 March.
Location: Art Park.
Speaker: Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares
event: Amsterdam, Dubai, Paris, Beirut
The Khatt Foundation , curated by Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares, is launching the Typographic Matchmaking sequel — Typographic…
Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares
on ARTSWORLD programme's 7th and last episode
ARTSWORLD is half hour weekly programme broadcast on Al Jazeera English that includes four 5-minute inserts each week from around the world.
Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares
Story of a font, designed by khtt member Yanone
An interview with the designer is planned to appear in on Khtt.net as the first of the series Design Profiles as of Spring 2011…
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News related to the interests if the Khatt design community posted in 2009
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News related to the interests if the Khatt design community posted in 2007
Paul McLoughlin, Brownbook
Interview with Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares in Brownbook Magazine Dec. 2012
" The Khatt Foundation has become one of the most exciting and innovative young enterprises to emerge from Europe’s fast-paced…
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Samir Éditeur : Maison d’édition de livres de jeunesse et d'ouvrages scolaires, en langues française et arabe,
fondée en 1947…
Sam Anvari
by: Sam Anvari, Los Angeles California
The presentation and workshop for “The Love of Arabic, Ottoman and Persian Calligraphy” took place on March 18, 2012, hosted by…
event:
Beirut,
Beirut Art Center (BAC)
Presentation - Film screening - Book signing
11
Apr
2011
19:00
Speaker: Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares, Film Maker: Jan de Bruin
Film Screening:19:00 - 19:45
Presentation: 20:00 - 20:45
Book…
image:
mohamed Gaber
'Be with the revolution, not sectarianism', by Mohamed Gaber .
event:
Amsterdam,
De Balie
Symposium – Film screening – Book launch
4
Feb
2011
14:00
http://digitaleeditie.nrc.nl/digitaleeditie/NH/2011/1/20110204___/1_11/index.html
Location: De Balie, Grote Zaal, Amsterdam…
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If you are interested in getting more information on the exhibition The Future of Tradition — Tradition of Future in Munich, you…
Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares
Khatt projects featured in frieze magazine
A Dutch–Arabic typography project shows increasing compatibility between strikingly different languages and cultures by Eugenia…
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News related to the interests if the Khatt design community posted in 2008
