UNESCO on Tuesday added Arabic calligraphy, a key tradition in the Arab and Islamic worlds, to its Intangible Cultural Heritage list. A total of 16 Muslim-majority countries, led by Saudi Arabia, ...

Meandering through the eerily quiet and narrow sand paths of Wadi al-Salam, lined on either side with graves speckled to the horizon and beyond, you’ll see colourful Arabic calligraphy adorning the ...

When he is not hauling concrete blocks on a construction site in northern Iraq, Jamal Hussein devotes his time to preserving the gentle art of Arabic calligraphy. Though he has won awards in numerous ...

One of the many works of Persian calligraphy on display at the Freer Sackler Gallery. There are many who see the foreign symbols of the Arabic alphabet as art themselves, in contrast to the bland ...

Clothes designers across the Middle East are increasingly using Arabic calligraphy in their designs – which some see as a way to keep their language and culture in fashion. Arabic letters inscribed on ...

Using Arabic calligraphy, eL Seed paints messages of hope on the sides of buildings. He says the beauty of Arabic script — even if you can't read it — can change negative perceptions of Arab culture.

For Muslims, the Qur’an is revered as God’s own art. Islam is essentially an aural religion; God’s word came to the Prophet Muhammad as a voice, instructing him to iqra’, “Recite!” In fact, iqra’ is ...

With the announcement of UNESCO regarding a number of traditional and folk art forms being recognized as intangible cultural heritage, we discovered a number of amazing initiatives in the region ...

Ancient Arabic calligraphy was known for centuries as a work of beauty and sophistication, but its depiction was tainted by association with ISIS and terrorism, and a Syrian refugee aims to correct ...

Inscription in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity - 2021. Arabic calligraphy is the artistic practice of handwriting Arabic script in a fluid manner to convey ...