Next to this community website, we do projects in the arab world and beyond.
Here is an overview of our projects past, present and future.
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Exhibition: the Dutch influence on Arabic type
Dutch designers' involvement in the production of Arabic printing types from the 17thC to present day
A timely and positive way to promote cultural exchange and tolerance between the West and the Arab world.
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conference Huda Smitshuijzen Abifares
khatt kufi & kaffiya
- The Khatt Foundation Symposium on Arabic Visual Culture24Ağs 2007Khatt and Mediamatic will host a full day of lectures, presentations and celebration of new Arabic cultural expression, at the theater van 't woord in the central public library of Amsterdam.
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Khatt Font Project Huda Smitshuijzen Abifares
The Typographic Matchmaking 01 project
Building cultural bridges with typeface design
10 Arab and Dutch designers collaborate on designing Arabic companions for Dutch fonts
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The Kitabat conference
5Nis 2006- The first major Arabic calligraphy and typography conference in the Middle East.8Nis 2006Hosted by the Visual Communication Department at the American University in Dubai, in partnership with the Khatt Foundation (Center for Arabic Typography, Amsterdam) and Linotype GmBH (Germany), and...