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Bassam El Baroni
Curator / Writer
Curator / Writer based in Alexandria (EG)
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ACAF Bassam El Baroni
Cleotronica 08
18Jan 200831May 2008Cleotronica 08 is the inaugural version of Cleotronica a festival for media, art, and socio-culture organized by Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF) an alternative initiative for art and...
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Tashkeel Lateefa
Tashkeel Exhibition Call
15Mar 200815Mar 2008Tashkeel is currently calling for work for a group exhibition opening 15th March 2008 entitled "Vibrations Within" and would like to invite artists to submit artwork. The theme description can be...
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The Arts of Islam
Treasures from the Nasser D. Khalili Collection
Exhibition and Symposium at the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
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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...
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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
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MS Embedded Open Type format
Microsoft proposing the MS Embedded Open Type format
Microsoft is ready to propose to the World Wide Web Consortium (the W3C) that they adopt the MS Embedded Open Type format for all browsers and platforms.
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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...
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Netherlands Architecture Institute
AL MANAKH
Analysis of developments along the Gulf: A Guide, a Survey, an Agenda.
AMO / Archis / Moutamarat release the book Al Manakh, the first ever comprehensive analysis of the development of The Gulf, to be presented by Rem Koolhaas and Ole Bouman at the Netherlands...
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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, Antonia Carver and Markus Miessen Featuring: Mauricio Guillen, Yto...
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International Design Forum, in Dubai
Moutamarat's first annual design forum in Dubai.
Dubai. May 27 - 29, 2007. Promoting design as a critical tool for cultural understanding and commercial excellence.
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STEALTH
Ana Dzokic and Marc Neelen
STEALTH shapes opportunities where various fields of investigation can meet and where thinking about possible future(s) of the city are mobilized. We focus on innovative aspects of sometimes hidden
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Andreu Balius
Type designer based in Barcelona (Spain)
Andreu Balius is a type designer based in Barcelona (Spain). He currently runs his own studio and leads TypeRepublic type foundry. He has been awarded several Excellence in Type Design certificates...
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Nada Debs
Furniture and Design
Lebanese by birth, raised in Japan, educated in the United States, and worked in the United Kingdom - Nada Debs' creations are unique as the designer herself. This global fusion of cultures...
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Mahita El Bacha Urieta
curator, culture strategist, art and culture producer - London / Abu Dhabi based - Spanish/Lebanese born. art on the streets, informal settings for cultural endulgance and creative nurturing, cross...
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Rawia Beyhum
International Brand Strategy, Marketing Consultant and Graphic Designer from Lebanon. She has worked in several countries around the world, networking with talented individuals and finally settling...
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Julien Breton
"Kaalam"
I'm a Latin Calligrapher inspired by arabic calligraphy and typography. I'm working around light and paper calligraphy.
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Nadim Karam & Atelier Hapsitus
With a background that fuses Oriental, Western and Japanese theories of space, Nadim Karam went on to create his own concepts, like 'micropluralism', 'the rachitecture of performace', and 'story
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abdulrahman alhussain
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Ghalia Elsrakbi
Ghalia Elsrakbi 14 June 1978 - Damascus / Syria Established in the Netherlands since 2000 2008 Participant of Multiplicity & Visual Identities (design research in multicultural hybrid society...
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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
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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...
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Typographic Matchmaking Pilot Project