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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 lunch at the 8th floor restaurant with an amazing view over Amsterdam.
At 17:00 we'll wrap up and move to the next-door PostCS building where we'll celebrate the opening of El HEMA at Mediamatic!
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Syrian Lingerie -
Image from the publication “The secret Life of Syrian lingerie: Intimacy and Design”. This book will be published by the book will be published by Chronicle Books in autumn 2008. Photo by Omar al-Moutem.
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El HEMA logo New -
Designed by Wael Morcos based on the Old School logo by Tarek Atrissi and Huda AbiFarès. The font is TheMix Arabic.
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Spontaneous calligraphy demo -
Spontaneous calligraphy demo by Brody Neuenschwander during lunch break at the the Kitabat conference. Dubai 2006.
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Aug
2007
10:10
Cultural survival kits… it would be real nice if we had ready-made ones to give out at the door with simple instruction manuals.…
event: khatt kufi & kaffiya
the National Museum of Yemen
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Aug
2007
10:50
The National Museum of Yemen in the capital city of Sana’a was neglected when I arrived in 1998. The buildings needed repairs all…
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Aug
2007
Talk and short video screening by Khaled D. Ramadan.
Planet of the Arabs by video maker Jacki Salloum.
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In Search for a Hybrid Visual Language
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Aug
2007
13:10
The Dutch government stimulates contact between groups of different backgrounds by establishing a House for Cultural Dialogue in the…
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a Thousand Years of Arab-European Exchange in Printing and Book Design
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Aug
2007
13:50
The history of printing in the Arab world and Europe is the story of a 500-year exchange of technology, imagery and design. The…
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Contemporary Arabic Children's Books
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Aug
2007
14:40
'If I do not mistake, you come from far. May I ask where you are going?'
'I will tell you,' answered Désiré, 'though most likely…
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Recent Developments and Consumer Needs
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Aug
2007
15:20
The Arabic type market has changed dramatically in the last few years, and this has been mainly inspired by recent technology…
event: khatt kufi & kaffiya
24
Aug
2007
16:10
Willem Velthoven interviewing the Typographic Matchmaking Type Designers: Nadine Chahine, Gerard Unger, Tarek Atrissi, Peter Bilak,…
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Amsterdam,
Stichting Mediamatic
El HEMA is a non-commercial cultural project by the Mediamatic Foundation in Amsterdam.
17:00
What would an Arabic HEMA look like? Halal sausage? Arabic chocolate letters? Affordable high quality headscarves? 3 Palestinian…
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Aug
2007
10:30
Movable type was the the new media of the 15th century. In Europe many rulers felt threatened by it, and they were right.
They…
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22
Aug
2007
The Arab street – its vibrancy, innovativeness, traditions of design and contemporary expression – has been obscured by…
event: khatt kufi & kaffiya
the Case of Visual Culture in Beirut
24
Aug
2007
12:00
Politics, in the form of contemporary cultural resistance projects and in the history of Arab political posters, will be the subject…
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Aug
2007
Peter Bilak will speak about methodologies of approaching unfamiliar areas of work.
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24
Aug
2007
14:20
For nearly twenty years, Brody Neuenschwander has worked with the British film maker Peter Greenaway to produce calligraphy for…
event: khatt kufi & kaffiya
Technological Narratives of Arabic Typography
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Aug
2007
Narratives of Arabic typography shift between technological exclusion, historical resistance, and cultural rediscovery. From…
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Research on Aesthetic Trends and Legibility
24
Aug
2007
15:40
Tarek Atrissi’s will present a research on aesthetic trends and design conventions in the Arab world, through the analysis of…
Book:
Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares
This book is out of print
Copyright©2007. Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares
Published by BIS Publishers, Amsterdam. 2007
ISBN 978-90-6369-124-0
To Order it…
conference program
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,…
