Over a span of 100 years, the Holy Kaaba's Kiswa (cover) has been shaped by the skill and dedication of many craftsmen who ...

Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, June/July 2026, p. 78 Music & Arts PALESTINIAN MASTER calligraphy artist Nihad ...

The Arabic script contains a full range of letters of manipulable size and shape, making it fertile ground for calligraphic ornamentation. Islamic artistic traditions depend heavily on the use of ...

Puzzling but appealing. That’s the reaction of many who encounter a new permanent art installation in Elizabeth Berger Plaza, the small park at the triangular intersection of Trinity Place, Edgar ...

The UAE Government is set to roll out a sweeping set of initiatives between 2026 and 2027, including a dedicated Arabic Language Law, as part of a comprehensive policy to enhance the role and status ...

English-speaking ChatGPT users were caught off guard after OpenAI’s chatbot started increasingly injecting Arabic words into its responses, as seen in viral social media posts. “It did it twice on my ...

Arabic Calligraphy gained prominence during the Islamic Golden Age especially from the Arabic language Kufic script. The types of pens to be used for right and left-handed calligraphers vary in sizes ...

Discover the creative process behind a captivating mixed media artwork on canvas board. In this step-by-step art tutorial, watch as decoupage, modeling paste, and acrylic painting are combined to ...

Karim Jabbari still remembers how painful it was to walk down the street with his family as a child and see his neighbors turn away. “No one was willing to talk to us in public,” he says. Jabbari’s ...

A raw material – not gold – is having an outsized influence on the fighting in Sudan as it is smuggled to help fund the war effort of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). It is gum arabic, an ...

Arabic is one of the world’s most widely spoken languages with at least 400 million speakers, including 200 million native speakers and 200 million to 250 million non-native speakers. Modern Standard ...