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  • Book: Beirut, Fadi Shayya

    At the Edge of the City

    Reinhabiting Public Space toward the Recovery of Beirut’s Horsh Al-Sanawbar

    Fadi Shayya –

    Edited by Fadi Shayya Foreword by George Arbid Design by Danny Khoury ISBN 978-9953-0-1537-8 192 pages, with color photographs and ...

    6 comments

  • Book

    Arabic Font Specimen Book

    Edo Smitshuijzen –

    The Arabic Font Specimen book is finally published and available! Good news for all of you who have been patiently waiting. For ...

    29 comments

  • Book: khatt kufi & kaffiya

    Typographic Matchmaking

    This book is now available for ordering online from Nijhof & Lee and BIS Publishers.

    Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares –

    Copyright©2007. Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares Published by BIS Publishers, Amsterdam. 2007 ISBN 978-90-6369-124-0 As the world moves ...

    9 comments

  • Book

    The Conference of the Birds

    A Study of Farid Ud-Din Attar's Poem Using Jali Diwani Calligraphy

    Farah Behbehani –

    Based on the twelfth-century Sufi allegorical poem The Conference of the Birds, this book interprets the poems of the classic text ...

    24 comments

  • Book

    Mehdi Saeedi - Collection of graphic works 1999 - 2004

    Mehdi Saeedi –

    Mehdi Saeedi - Collection of graphic works 1999 - 2004 Published in the Tehran (IR) (2005) ; about 96 pages, 17 x 24 cm, softcover; ...

    4 comments

  • Book

    Iranian Typography : 50 YEARS OF CALLIGRAPHY AND TYPOGRAPHY IN IRANIAN GRAPHIC DESIGN

    Exhibition of 50 Years of Iranian Typography at the Basel School of Design FHNW/HGK, 2007

    Kambiz Shafei –

    isbn 9789646994584   NAZAR PUBLISHERS Available at www.ideabooks.nl for  €31,20  A treasure trove of 50 years of Iranian ...

  • Publication

    Shakloh magazine

    Online Visual PDF Magazine For Arab Artists

    Mohammed Fahmy –

    SHAKLOH is a free monthly PDF entirely visual magazine acting as a space of expression and promotion for Arab artists, designers, ...

    2 comments

  • Book

    Off The Wall

    Political Posters of the Lebanese Civil War

    Zeina Maasri –

    by Zeina Maasri with a foreword by Fawwaz Traboulsi Published by I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd, London ISBN: 978 1 84511 951 5

  • 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 ...

  • Book

    Signage Design Manual

    Edo Smitshuijzen –

    The signage canon finally has its own dedicated textbook Smitshuijzen, Edo. Lars Müller Publishers. Switzerland. 2007. Euros 48.50 ...

  • Book

    Middle Eastern languages and the print revolution: a cross-cultural encounter.

    A catalogue and companion to the Exhibition = Sprachen des Nahen Ostens und die Druckrevolution: eine interkulturelle Begegnung. Katalog und Begleitband zur Ausstellung.

    Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares, Dr Geoffrey Roper –

    Edited by = Herausgegeben von Eva Hanebutt-Benz · Dagmar Glaß · Geoffrey Roper, in collaboration with = unter Mitarbeit von Theo ...

  • Book: Rotterdam, Netherlands Architecture Institute

    AL MANAKH

    Analysis of developments along the Gulf: A Guide, a Survey, an Agenda.

    10 Sep 2007

    20:00

    AMO / Archis / Moutamarat release the book Al Manakh , the first ever comprehensive analysis of ...

  • Book: ESPRIT PORCELAINE 2009

    Esprit Porcelaine

    Francois Beydoun –

    ESPRIT PORCELAINE is the collective name of a group of ceramic artists with individual talents combine to provide products with a wide ...

  • Publication, Book

    Subjective Atlas of Palestine

    Annelys de Vet –

    010 publishers, 2007 | Edited and designed by Annelys de Vet Sublime landscapes, tranquil urban scenes, frolicking children; who ...

  • Book

    Arabic Typography

    A comprehensive sourcebook

    Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares –

    copyright © Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès, 2001 Published by Saqi Books, London ISBN 0-86356-347-3 This is a comprehensive study, ...

    2 comments

  • Book: Dar Onboz

    Flip Beirut Flip

    An anthology of the city of Beirut by 12 artists

    Nadine Touma –

    12 flip books about Beirut, using photography, charcoal drawing, collage, digital 3d media...

    1 comment

  • Book

    Packaging Design

    in Introduction

    Farzan Kermaninejad –

    This book covered all aspects and dimensions of Packaging Design in Persian language. This observations comprise of history, styles, ...

    2 comments

  • Book

    a3takid annana sanakoun hadi2in fil harb el moukbila

    I think we will be much calmer in the next war

    lena merhej –

    a series of notes and comments that i wrote after the 2006 Israeli war in Lebanon

  • Book

    Nazar

    Photographs From The Arab World

    Edited by Wim Melis. Essays by Michket Krifa, Negar Azimi, Issam Nassar, Isolde Brielmaier, Issa Touma, Peter Lewis and Sherifa Zuhur.

    1 comment

  • Book

    The Secret Life of Syrian Lingerie, Intimacy & Design

    Rana Salam, Malu Halasa –

    This book explores the design and manufacturing of Syrian Lingerie like you have not seen it before. Co Edited with Malu Halasa, this ...

  • Publication

    Samandal Comics

    Quarterly tri-lingual comics magazine from the Middle East

    Hatem Imam, fdz bx –

    The comic book, in its present day form, is regarded as an imported medium to the Arab world. Samandal (Salamander in Arabic), a ...

  • Book

    Arabesque

    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 ...

    3 comments

  • animation film

    Persepolis, story of an Iranian childhood

    An animated biography of an Iranian woman

    Edo Smitshuijzen –

    Sometimes the story about important developments in the Arab world are best told by reports about personal experiences. And sometimes ...

    5 comments

  • Book

    WITH/WITHOUT

    Spatial Products, Practices and Politics in the Middle East

    Published by Bidoun and Moutamarat on the occasion of the first International Design Forum, May 27-29, 2007 Edited by Shumon Basar, ...

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