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Symposium Program

Khatt Kufi Kaffiya | Symposium on Arabic Visual Culture

We'll have the whole day to ourselves in the theatre of the brand new public library of Amsterdam (OBA) Admission and registration is from 9 on and the programme starts at 10:00 sharp. We'll have...

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Arabic in the Barnbrook Bible

a graphic manifesto and autobiography

"Jonathan Barnbrook’s new book, Barnbrook Bible, ranks amongst the most ambitious personal projects undertaken by any graphic designer. It is a 330-page monograph bursting with dazzling refinement.

Reem Aboulhosn

Watch this space.

I am an independent Brand Designer and budding illustrator with over 12 years experience in the Middle East. I have worked with several international and regional branding consultancies and with...

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Hazem Aljesr

Graphic Designer, Photographer, Art Director

A Saudi national, Hazem was born in Las Palmas, Spain. He was raised in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia, and was educated in the U.S.A. and England. He earned his two undergraduate degrees with honors in...

Nader Al Darawsheh

Born in Jordan 1967, Nader Darawsheh obtained his Bachelor Degree of Fine Arts, Decor Department, From Yarmouk Univercity, Jordan 1989 at a general grade of Very Good. Nader joined Sakhr Software...

Reem Al Ghaith

(b.1985, Dubai) is a young polymath working in the fields of graphic design, printmaking, photography and mixed media;

Biography: Reem Al Ghaith a young polymath working in the fields of visual art, graphic design, printmaking, and photography. She was born and raised in Dubai in 1985, where she currently lives and...

Abeer Tahlak

in heart with LETTERS

currently working as a senior art director at the creative department of Dubai Media Incorporated *Dubai TV, Sama Dubai, Dubai Sports, Dubai One; concept and design of the 1st Shawati' Magazine issue...

Yara Khoury Nammour

Designer and Assistant Professor of Design, the American University of Beirut

Graduated from Notre Dame University, Lebanon, with a BA in Graphic Design and later acquired an MA with distinction at Middlesex University, London. She is the design director of Al Mohtaraf (www.

New Arabic type design impresses Dutch lawyers…

El-HEMA Exhibition at Mediamatic

Good graphic design still creates a very powerful image. Sometimes even up to a level that it may mislead and subsequently embarrass captains of industry and top law firms.

Fenna Zamouri

Graphic Designer (Brussels)

Fenna Zamouri (°1979) studied a master in graphic design at Sint Lukas Hogeschool (Brussels, Belgium) and specialized in typography at the Plantin Institute for Typography (Antwerp). In 2006 she...

Hussein Alazaat

حسين الأزعط

Joost van Schendel

publisher

BULAAQ Publishing is a small, independent and non-religious publishing house. We publish only in Dutch on the Middle East, North Africa and Islam in the fields of history, language, politics, poetry

mohannad Al Mahayni

ًWorked for local and international Advertising Agencies, on many international and local clients, ook part in many Award winning campaigns and creative works, my love for Arabic language and...

ihsan al-hammouri

Ihsan Hammouri was born in ZERQA, JORDAN, in 1973. Ihsan began learning calligraphy and painting when he was a child. His zeal for art grew into a way of life and he went on to earn BFA and Masters...

Maya Zankoul

fresh graduate with a B.A. in Graphic Design from NDU (Notre Dame University), Zouk Mosbeh, Lebanon. Emphasis in typography and motion graphics.

Fresh graduate with a B.A. in Graphic Design from NDU (Notre Dame University), Zouk Mosbeh, Lebanon. Emphasis in typography and motion graphics. Currently working in the design office of the Rezayat...

Kristyan Sarkis

Graphic & Type Designer

Kristyan Sarkis is a type and graphic designer based in Amsterdam. He holds a BA in Graphic Design from Notre Dame University (Lebanon) and an MA in Type and Media from the Royal Academy of Art in...

Wael Morcos

Graphic Designer

After receiving his BA in Graphic Design from the Notre Dame University (Lebanon), Wael Morcos joined the branding and design department of SAATCHI Beirut where he spent three years developing...

KhaJag Apelian

Lettering artist, type and graphic designer

Khajag Apelian is a lettering artist, type and graphic designer. Having grown up between Dubai and Beirut, and being raised in an Armenian family, Khajag has an affinity for different languages and...

Tarek Atrissi

Founder and Principal of Tarek Atrissi Design (www.atrissi.com), The Netherlands.

Kambiz Shafei

Kambiz Shafei was born in 1984 in Tehran/Iran, where he received his basic education and started working as a graphic designer for Did Graphics. Shafei conceived and is hosting www.typography.ir, a...