DUBAI: Practiced for hundreds of years, Arabic calligraphy is being acknowledged on a grand scale in 2020. Saudi Arabia has declared 2020 as the Year of Arabic Calligraphy, and UNESCO has registered ...
Ancient Arabic calligraphy was known for centuries as a work of beauty and sophistication, but its depiction was tainted by association with ISIS and terrorism, and a Syrian refugee aims to correct ...
One of the many works of Persian calligraphy on display at the Freer Sackler Gallery. There are many who see the foreign symbols of the Arabic alphabet as art themselves, in contrast to the bland ...
Meandering through the eerily quiet and narrow sand paths of Wadi al-Salam, lined on either side with graves speckled to the horizon and beyond, you’ll see colourful Arabic calligraphy adorning the ...
JERUSALEM — On June 11, Israeli typeface designer and professor Liron Lavi Turkenich found herself teaching a new student: her country’s president, Reuven Rivlin. Turkenich, a 32-year-old professor of ...
Bengaluru-based calligrapher Muqtar Ahmed is on a mission to revive the art of Arabic calligraphy in India. At the Indo-Islamic Art and Culture (IIIAC) in Bengaluru, he has trained 500 youngsters so ...
Bee Bee Laisa, a final year Engineering student in Bengaluru, has a dream. The 24-year-old wants to transcribe a copy of the Koran in Arabic. “I have always been interested in art and drawing, but it ...
When he is not hauling concrete blocks on a construction site in northern Iraq, Jamal Hussein devotes his time to preserving the gentle art of Arabic calligraphy. Though he has won awards in numerous ...
Lebanese-Palestinian tattoo artist Noore Yazigi tests a flash tattoo stencil on a friend's forearm. (all photos Randa Jumean/Hyperallergic unless noted) Noore Yazigi loves tattooing hands. Her own are ...
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