Earlier this year, the Institute of Business Administration (IBA) in Karachi invited a Turkish calligrapher, Deniz Bektash, to teach its students the art of calligraphy. In a series of Zoom classes, ...

Faraz Khan is promoting his upcoming course at Rutgers University on Facebook. The ability to read and write Arabic is not a prerequisite for Introduction to the History and Practice of Arabic ...

Pakistani calligraphy is undergoing an exciting renaissance. Younger artists are taking centuries-old scripts like Thuluth, Naskh, Kufic, and Diwani, and blending them with bold, modern colour ...

In today’s digital world, many of us don’t get to hold a pen for days. All our fingers do is tap screens and punch keyboards faster than lightning. While the focus on handwriting seems to have shifted ...

Sharjah: Dozens of exquisite calligraphic works, some dating back to the ninth century, that have gone on display at the Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization give visitors insights on key periods of ...

You see them everywhere: on billboards, in magazine articles, at airports welcoming you, but you probably didn’t spare much thought about them. Arabic fonts featuring modern or traditional elements ...