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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260814T163000
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SUMMARY:Collections Tour: Arabic Calligraphy and Font Development
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\nSan Francisco\, CA\n\n\n\nExplore examples of Arabic ty
 pography from Letterform Archive’s collection with this in-person\, doce
 nt-led tour.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe history of the Arabic speaking peoples of So
 uthwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA) is complex—nested in various cultu
 ral\, religious\, social\, political\, technological and economic contexts
 . Letterform Archive invites you to come celebrate the history of Arabic g
 raphic design across borders with our docent Sabiha Basrai. There are a mu
 ltitude of scripts in the SWANA region—more than 28 languages that use t
 he Arabic script (Persian\, Urdu\, Ottoman Turkish\, etc)\, and scripts li
 ke Tamazight\, Hebrew\, and Ge’ez\, that showcase the rich cultural dive
 rsity of the region. This tour will focus on the diversity of Arabic calli
 graphic styles\, and show examples of font development that required trans
 forming a once handwritten art into movable type.\n\nOur docent for this i
 n-person tour is Sabiha Basrai.\n\nThis tour was made possible by a genero
 us gift from Aslan Graphics.\n\nSabiha Basrai is a co-owner of Design Ac
 tion Collective—a worker-owned cooperative dedicated to serving social j
 ustice movements with art\, graphic design\, and web development. She is a
  Core Member of the Alliance of South Asians Taking Action\, where she wor
 ks with racial justice organizers on international solidarity campaigns. S
 abiha is part of the Center for Political Education Advisory Board\, a me
 mber of Race Forward's Affiliate Training team\, and a docent at the Lette
 rform Archive focusing on global scripts and internationalism.\n\n\n
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CATEGORIES:#arabic,Arab,Community,culture
LOCATION:Letterform Archive\, 2325 3rd Street Floor 4R\, San Fransisco\, CA
 \, 94107\, United States
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