News Archive 2008
News related to the interests if the Khatt design community posted in 2008
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event: New York, TCD
Fresco Arabic Wins TCD2 2008 Award
For excellence in Typeface Design
29 Jul 2008 – 22 Aug 2008
18:00
Congratulations to our Khatt members Lara Assouad-Khoury and Fred Smeijers for their ...
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event: Mons, The Mudaneum
Palestinian posters from the time of revolution
The collection of Ezzedin Kalak
7 Nov 2008 – 21 Dec 2008
Within the framework of MASARAT Palestine Exhibition sponsored by the Commissariat Général ...
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Publication
Samandal Comics
Quarterly tri-lingual comics magazine from the Middle East
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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Now, your Crocs can speak Arabic!
Arabic alphabets shoe charms by designer Hayan Maani
All over the world and on the net you can find shoe charms or better known as Jibbitz (the original company that produces them)... the ...
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event: London
London Book Fair 2008
Arabic books central at the London Book Fair
14 Apr 2008 – 16 Apr 2008
This year's London Book Fair (14 - 16 April) has put the Arab world as its pivotal theme. This ...
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event: Emirates Palace
The Arts of Islam
Treasures from the Nasser D. Khalili Collection
23 Jan 2008 – 22 Apr 2008
10:00
Exhibition and Symposium at the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
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event: Dubai, Tashkeel
Tashkeel Exhibition Call
15 Mar 2008
Tashkeel is currently calling for work for a group exhibition opening 15th March 2008 entitled ...
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event: Alexandria, ACAF
Cleotronica 08
Festival for Media, Art, and Socio-Culture
18 Jan 2008 – 31 May 2008
19:00
Cleotronica 08 is the inaugural version of Cleotronica a festival for media, art, and ...
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Erykah Badu and Arabic Muslim Culture
with a controversial working album title, references and more
Erykah Badu is one of the most established Hip-Hop/Soul musicians in the United States as well internationally. She's been on the music ...
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image
Almosawer, Egyptian Magazine back from 1949
photograph of a rare publication by Ahmad S. Kamel
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Book
Stéphane Mallarmé's ‘Un Coup de dés’ translated, composed & printed in arabic!
A new french publisher, Ypsilon, teams up with moroccan poet Mohammed Bennis for a world premiere : the first bilingual french-arabic ...
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Khatt Project
Typographic Matchmaking fonts in public spaces
The BigVesta Arabic font used in Guggenheim exhibition design
the Vesta and BigVesta Arabic fonts are used on large scale environmental graphics and lettering for the Saadiyat Island Cultural ...
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Arab visual splendor in French animation
Azur and Asmar, by Michel Ocelot
The film is directed and produced by Michel Ocelot and is a must see for all interested in Arabic visual language. Click here for more ...
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الشيخشاب
حوار مع الفنان/ محي الدين اللباد
محي الدين اللباد: ولد في القاهرة عام 1940؛ درس التصوير الزيتي في كلية الفنون ...
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Looking for a Missing Employee in Shizuoka, Japan & Live from Beirut
11 to 16 May 2008
I was invited with director Rabih Mroue to Shizuoka in Japan to present 'Looking for a Missing employee'. Due to the airport closure in ...
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event: University of Leipzig
History of Printing and Publishing in the Languages and Countries of the Middle East
Third International Symposium, a part of 24th Congress of the Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants (UEAI).
25 Sep 2008 – 27 Sep 2008
Following two successful international symposia on The History of Printing and Publishing in the ...
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event: The Cultural and Scientific Associatio - Al Mamzar
Dubai International Exhibition of the Arabic Calligraphy
5th Session
13 Feb 2008 – 20 Feb 2008
10:00
Under the patronage of H. H. Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of ...
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event: Dubai, Traffic
Traffic Design Competition 2008
the region's first product and interior design competition
1 Dec 2007 – 9 Mar 2008
Traffic launches the Middle East’s first regional annual design competition in its continued ...
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Multi Online Design Journal
Call for Submissions (2008/2009)
Multi's international editorial board seeks original, unpublished contributions for upcoming issues. Multi aims to nurture an ...
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Lebanese Vernacular Type
Vernacular bookmarks
When type mixes with art, superstitions, formalities, religious affiliations and social behaviour the result is a vernacular way of ...
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animation film
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 ...