Shaqa Bovand is a type designer who works at F37 Foundry. Born and raised in Iran, she grew up surrounded by calligraphy – ...

Leading designer and typographer, Mourad Boutros talks about bilingual fonts, his thoughts about the industry he has been a part of over the last 40 years and dream projects You see them everywhere: ...

Clothes designers across the Middle East are increasingly using Arabic calligraphy in their designs – which some see as a way to keep their language and culture in fashion. Arabic letters inscribed on ...

The British Museum is publishing what it claims is the first ‘stroke-by-stroke’ guide for learning Arabic calligraphy. Published on 4 February, the book is designed by MJ Graphics and written and ...

The Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) in Doha is set to host diverse workshops this month, inviting residents and visitors of all ages to explore Islamic art, calligraphy, geometry, and creative expression.

A Saudi female artist is presenting art pieces where she developed an abstract form of language, evolved from the Arabic alphabet to create her art pieces at the London Design Biennale 2018.

The Dubai-based French-Tunisian street artist who goes by the name of eL Seed has accused the Tunisian pavilion at Dubai’s World Expo, which opened on October 1, of copyright infringement of an Arabic ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “We knew that war was coming so I wanted to find a way out and continue to do art,” says Wissam Shawkat, an ...