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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. 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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  • FontShop chooses a Khatt Foundation font as its first Arabic Release

    Typographic Matchmaking V1.0, implemented in the mainstream international type market

    Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares –

    The former Sada Font designed and developed by Pascasl Zoghbi and Martin Majoor within the framework of the Khatt Foundation's ...

  • Palestine, graffiti as peaceful act of resistance

    reportage from the West Bank

    Luigi Farrauto –

    Just back from a trip in the West Bank, where the wall became a sad occasion of making graphics...

    3 comments

  • event: Museum of Islamic Art, Qatar

    Beyond Boundaries

    Islamic Art Across Cultures

    1 Dec 2008 – 22 Feb 2009

    This exhibition offers the opportunity to look at art across space and through time in the ...

  • Book

    Extraordinary Women

    from the Muslim World

    Sep Riyahi, Natalie Maydell, Heba Amin –

    Extraordinary Women from the Muslim World tells the stories of the thirteen women who overcame adversity to make their unique ...

  • Generating Arabic Fonts

    Pascal Zoghbi –

    Developing and generating Arabic fonts is not as easy and straightforward as for Latin fonts.This article will cover Encoding, Glyph and ...

  • The Big Kashida Secret

    Edo Smitshuijzen –

    The great masters of Arabic calligraphy loved to show their skills but they did not put much of their knowledge on paper for others to ...

  • News Archive 2008

    Posted stories from 2008

  • event: Amsterdam, Dubai, Paris, Beirut

    Typographic Matchmaking in the City 2.0

    1 Feb 2009 – 31 Dec 2010

    Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares – The Khatt Foundation , curated by Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares, is launching the Typographic ...

    8 comments

  • Arabic Typography as Social Campaign

    Khede Kasra Campaign by the Hariri Foundation

    Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares –

    if you can view the video here, please visit it at the link below: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ienYpISHLg0

    2 comments

  • Arabesque on the Potomac

    Notes on the Arab Cultural Festival in Washington DC Feb 23- Mar 15

    michael scott

  • New Arabic multi-script font designs

    Edo Smitshuijzen –

    Designing a well functioning multi-script font is an extensive and complex job. There are only very few design schools where one can be ...

  • Arabic Glyphs Proportions and Guidlines

    Pascal Zoghbi –

    The following article is a brief description of systems and guidelines used in Arabic calligraphy and Arabic type design field to ...

  • Article

    MS Embedded Open Type format

    Microsoft proposing the MS Embedded Open Type format

    Microsoft is ready to propose to the World Wide Web Consortium (the W3C) that they adopt the MS Embedded Open Type format for all ...

  • News Archive 2007