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Fotis Gerakis

Graphic Designer, Motion Graphics, Art Director

A Greek-American national, Fotis was born and raised in the small northern town of Serres, Greece, and was educated in the United States. He is a graduate of the University of Houston in Graphic...

Wissam Shawkat

Artist, Calligrapher, Type Designer, Graphic Designer

Passionate about Arabic calligraphy since a very young age, Wissam Shawkat taught himself calligraphy by closely observing Turkish calligraphy masters. He has participated in many local and...

Sébastien Morlighem

Graphic Designer, professor (History of Typography & Graphic Design) at the École supérieure d'art et de design (Amiens).

Fenna Zamouri

Graphic Designer (Brussels)

Fenna Zamouri (°1979) studied a master in graphic design at Sint Lukas Hogeschool (Brussels, Belgium) and specialized in typography at the Plantin Institute for Typography (Antwerp). In 2006 she...

J.R. Osborn

Doctoral candidate in the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego

I am currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego. The title of my dissertation is “The Type of Calligraphy: Writing, Print, and the...

Museum of Islamic Art, Qatar

Beyond Boundaries

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Dec 2008

22
Feb 2009
- Islamic Art Across Cultures

This exhibition offers the opportunity to look at art across space and through time in the Islamic world, and includes interactions between the world of Islam and that of other cultures and religions

Bassam El Baroni

Curator / Writer

Curator / Writer based in Alexandria (EG)

The Arts of Islam

Treasures from the Nasser D. Khalili Collection

Exhibition and Symposium at the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

Emirates Palace Auditoriu, Abu Dhabi Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares

Arts of Islam Symposium Program

The Symposium held in association with the exhibition The Arts of Islam: Treasures from the Nasser D. Khalili Collection. Master of Ceremonies: H.E. Zaki Anwar Nusseibeh, Vice Chairman of ADACH and...

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 the narrative can be more poignant when represented in a simple...

From Amulet to Art Nouveau

24
Aug 2007
- a Thousand Years of Arab-European Exchange in Printing and Book Design

The history of printing in the Arab world and Europe is the story of a 500-year exchange of technology, imagery and design. The Arabs adopted printing long before Gutenberg, but did not use it for...

Another Arabic Cliche Exhibition

The Spirit & Life exhibition, Masterpieces of Islamic Art from the Aga Khan Museum Collection

Location: Ismaili Centre, London. Until 31 August 2007. The Khatt Foundation is not alone in its strife to present a better image of Arab culture to western audiences. Many organizations see the need...

In defence of a remarkable exhibition

The Spirit & Life exhibition

It was rather surprising to find the Spirit & Life exhibition in London dismissed on the Khatt site as just "another Arabic cliché exhibition". In the first place it is not, and nowhere claims to be

The Kitabat conference

The first major Arabic calligraphy and typography conference in the Middle East.

Dubai, 5 - 8 April 2006 Hosted by the Visual Communication Department at the American University in Dubai, in partnership with the Khatt Foundation (Center for Arabic Typography, Amsterdam) and...

Heba Kharouf

Graphic Designer, working in film

Erik Brandt

Salaam! I teach graphic design at MCAD, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, in los Estados Unidos. My research interests focus on issues of globalization that affect and drive the complexities of...

Christine Eid

Founder, TOW. Melbourne, Australia.

Christine Eid is a researcher and artist based in Melbourne, Australia. Her research and interdisciplinary arts practice, TOW, was established in 2001 and includes sculptural, moving-image

Stephen Banham

Founder of Letterbox, Melbourne, Australia

Called a ‘typographic evangelist’ by Eye magazine, Stephen Banham is founder of Letterbox, a typographic studio based in Melbourne, Australia.

Zeina Maasri

Designer and professor of graphic design

Zeina Maasri is an Associate Professor of Graphic Design at the American University of Beirut and a practicing graphic designer. She has been conducting research since 2004 on the political posters...

Marwa Hashim

My name is Marwa Hashim, I graduated from the American University In Dubai in 2006. I studied Graphic Design and illustration and I took several courses in Typography and Calligraphy. I was trained...

Ryan Pescatore Frisk

I am a designer+ I am interested in the intersection of culture, identity and representation coupled with the influences of technology and social interaction.