typography

The History of Arabic Typography & How Arab Graphic Designers are Reinventing the Arabic Type Design

July 25, 2023

By Menal Elmaliki

By: Menal Elmaliki / Arab America Contributing Writer How the Arabic Language is Represented in West Hollywood’s Persistence of Arab Stereotypes From the earliest Hollywood portrayal of Arabs, The Sheik (1921), to oriental’s interpretation of the East in Aladdin (2019), where you’re not sure whether its Indian, Arab or Persian, to America’s beloved t.v series … Continued

In Photos: Arabic Typography in Egypt Through The Ages

September 19, 2020

By Ani Karapetyan

SOURCE: EGYPTIAN STREETS BY: NORAN ALAA MORSI Arabic typography is one of the simplest and simultaneously most complex forms of art. The language’s different visual reproductions and renditions are used in the world’s largest and most sophisticated museums, and studied by renowned scholars around the world. However, with the technological boom of typography and fonts, … Continued

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