by Dalia Assam | Jul 20, 2016 | Lifestyle & Culture
Cairo-With the launch of the Cairo International Festival for Arabic Calligraphy, the Art Gallery at Cairo Opera House has been filled with different types of calligraphic works that reflect the beauty of the Arabic calligraphy. The festival, which is supposed to...
by Eman Al-Khattaf | Dec 8, 2014 | Lifestyle & Culture
Dammam, Asharq Al-Awsat—There has been much debate recently among Saudi scribes over the role modern technology is playing in the centuries-old art of Arabic calligraphy. Some artists see modern technology as their sworn enemy and a tool for the destruction and...
by Abeer Mishkhas | Jul 10, 2014 | Lifestyle & Culture
London, Asharq Al-Awsat— Shafiq Al-Zaman has been chief calligrapher at the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina ever since winning a competition to renovate some of the inscriptions on the walls of Islam’s second-holiest site in 1991. For the last 23 years, the Pakistani...
by Ashwaq Bandar | Nov 5, 2013 | Lifestyle & Culture
Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat—”If I have the chance to write another version of the Holy Qur’an, I would accomplish it in half the time,” says Egyptian calligrapher Taher Emara, on the subject of his completion of the unique “Al-Faisal version” of...
