Hussein Alazaat

Cairo font?

So, Cairo was the first Arabic city who owned an Arabic font?

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With:
هدى سميتسهوزن أبي فارس, Yanone, Luc(as) de Groot, Nadine Chahine, Pascal Zoghbi, Ali Almasri

I've visited Cairo last year, and I noticed this strange Arabic font all over the city! I really would like to know who was behind the creation of that font.

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