Arabic script is more than just letters – it’s an art form shaped by history, calligraphy, and cultural identity. Each letter ...

“So…are you Middle Eastern?” I had just walked into the American Sephardi Federation office in lower Manhattan, where 20 ...

Graphic designers often hope to express the power of communication through their work, but not many attack the project as literally as the Lebanese designer Rana Abou Rjeily does. She has created ...

The institutional teaching of Arabic calligraphy in Egypt is marking its centenary this year, writes Dina Ezzat ...

At the Grey Gallery, it’s as if you’re inhabiting the artist’s own brush as it hesitates between writing and drawing. By Will Heinrich There’s something thrilling about the extreme flexibility of the ...

JTA — When Liron Lavi Turkenich designed a writing system combining Hebrew and Arabic characters as a final project in college, she probably could not have imagined that her script would become 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 ...

On 1 November 1928, a new Turkish alphabet law was passed making making the use of Latin letters compulsory in all public communications and the education system 11 July 1928 A new alphabet for ...

As a student at Central Saint Martins in London, Rana Abou Rjeily devised the font family Mirsaal, which comprises Arabic and Latin alphabets that work together in typographic harmony. Growing up in ...