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Charlotte Bank
Researcher, curator and writer living between Berlin and (untill 2011) Damascus. Currently, I hold a doctoral position at the university of Geneva, focusing on the emerging contemporary art scene in...
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Areski AATIF
A Work in Progress's profile
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Iyad Aboul-Naja
Inspired by elaborate culture and artistic detail, bustling environments and rich sensory experiences, Iyad brings his expressive concepts to many creative disciplines. He received his early design...
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Meera Huraiz
Visual Artist
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Seyyed Reza Movahedi
Riza
Profession biography: he has had a pronounced impact on the medium and the profession, also he is the founder and executive creative director of Zafre Media™, a Web & Mobile App agency.
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Doreen Toutikian
MENA DESIGN RESEARCH CENTER
Founder and Director of the MENA Design Research Center, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the understanding of design, and developing its role as a creative tool for the enhancement...
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irini gonou
artist
My studies in sculpture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts as well as the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs of Paris influenced my artistic search and focused my wanderings in world culture. Now living in Athens, I...
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Noura Haggag
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Farzan Kermaninejad
Graphic Designer, Calligraphr, Researcher
• I am an Iranian Art Director and Graphic Designer, currently dividing my time between designing and research on graphic design and calligraphy. I have done my Master's degree in Graphic Design from...
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Tania Abdul Rahman
I'm a Multimedia Graphic Designer who's living in Beirut (Lebanon). I feel lucky to have found a career that I can honestly say I love. I'm overly fanatic about music and typography, listening and...
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Anna Christina
romantic anarchy
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Aida Eltorie
Managing Director of Finding Projects Association
Aida Eltorie, is an independent curator and director to Finding Projects Association (Florence). Since 2012, Eltorie launched the new branding for 6 Contemporary Arts gallery (Cairo) and had been...
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law alsobrook
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Museum of Islamic Art, Qatar
Beyond Boundaries
1Ara 200822Şub 2009This 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
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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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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...
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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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From Amulet to Art Nouveau
24Ağs 2007The 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...
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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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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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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...