Khatt Books Events
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Khatt Books is a specialized publishing house, established in 2010 as a commercial arm of the Khatt Foundation. Khatt Books focuses on topics such as typography, graphic design, architecture, other applied and visual arts from or dealing with the MENA region.
Khatt Books aims to disseminate information about design, designers, architects, visual artists and activists whose work instigates change and further development of the Arab visual culture. Khatt Books hopes to build an archive and make accessible the little known design history and contemporary visual culture of the region. We are interested in publishing research-based monograms on key design personalities (or projects), as well as more experimental and creative publications by young designers and visual artists with remarkable voices.
Khatt Books believes that languages – just like cultures – should coexist ‘under one cover’, and therefore we will release bi-lingual publications in Arabic and English (where necessary even add an additional language relevant to the content). We hope to contribute by creating a fresh impression of the region and help to set a high standard for contemporary Arab publications. We use innovative typographic solutions and typesetting for our books, and involve young type designers in the process.
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Khatt Books Events
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Book Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès
ARABIC TYPOGRAPHY
A Revised and Concise Sourcebook
In the twenty-first century, the widespread integration of computer technologies has brought text-based information into many facets of everyday life. This has caused an ever-growing interest in...
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The Papyrus Gang / إحنا بتوع البردي
By Abla elBahrawy
Have you ever wondered why papyrus paper was produced only in Egypt? Since the invention of a secret method to create it from the papyrus plant almost 4,000 years ago, and since its use as a material...
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Book Yasmine Nachabe Taan
Saloua Raouda Choucair: Modern Arab Design, An…
The 5th in the series Arabic Design Library by Khatt Books
Exploring a large range of materials, she combined her knowledge in science, Islamic geometry, engineering and poetry to produce many of the design works made over a period of five decades. Despite...
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Book Lara Balaa
Emile Menhem: Invigorating Arab Journalism…
The 6th in the series Arabic Design Library by Khatt Books
He entered the graphic design profession by way of political engagement, when he started producing posters for the Lebanese Communist Party in the 1970s. He was simply drawn to design practice which...
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Book Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès
Kameel Hawa: The Art of Shaping Arabic Letters
The 5th in the series Arabic Design Library by Khatt Books
Hawa approaches design as a cultural mission and, in his words, his studio was more “than a mere company,” it was a place “where designing with thoughtful, artistic passion is a core value.” In...
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Book: Lina Hakim
Dia Al-Azzawi, Taking a Stand: Activism Through…
The fourth in the series Arabic Design Library by Khatt Books. Dia al-Azzawi is a renown Iraqi contemporary artist whose graphic design work is largely undocumented. This book is a concise and highly...
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Book: Yasmine Nachabe Taan
Abdulkader Arnaout, Designing as Visual Poetry
A Pioneer of Graphic Design in Syria
The third in the series Arabic Design Library by Khatt Books. It is a concise and highly illustrated bilingual account (in English and Arabic) of the Syrian modernist graphic designer, typographer
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Book: Yara Khoury Nammour
Nasri Khattar, A Modernist Typotect
Fighting Illiteracy with Type Design
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Book: Yasmine Nachabe Taan
Hilmi Al-Tuni, Evoking Popular Arab Culture
Illustration | Lettering | Book Design
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Book: Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès, Edo Smitshuijzen
El Hema
Graphic design for social change
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Book: Bahia Shehab
A Thousand Times No
A Visual History of the Lam-Alif
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Book: Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès
Arabic Type Design for Beginners
A bilingual and illustrated guidebook to Arabic type design
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Book: Edo Smitshuijzen
Sculpting Type
An Introduction to CNC Typography
An essential and inspiring book on 3D Typography that explains the basic and varied manufacturing technologies, among which 3D printing.
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Book: Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès
Typographic Matchmaking in the City
Propositions for a Pluralist Public Space
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Book Edo Smitshuijzen 1 Jan 2008
Arabic Font Specimen Book
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Book Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès 1 Jan 2001
Arabic Typography
A comprehensive sourcebook