Viktoriia Asanova was born in Uzbekistan and later moved to Moscow at age 20. She accepted Islam at age 21, meanwhile beginning her art career in the Academy of Arts in Uzbekistan, a specialised ...

This story was first published on New Frame. After years of working and volunteering as an international solidarity activist in occupied Palestine, and as an environmentalist and education-rights ...

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 ...

A seminar organised by the Qatar International Arabic Calligraphy Competition "Al Raqim" at the Ministry of Endowments (Awqaf) and Islamic Affairs and Qatar Committee for Alliance of Civilisations at ...

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 ...

Khairi Izat Amir involved in creating the calligraphic text for warkah persilaan. The tools also play an important role in calligraphy. Khat has a more aesthetic value to it. Not all students will ...

Calligraphy is a centuries-old tradition of an artistic writing of different languages by using its alphabets in many different manners. Calligraphy is recognized by various scripts that have invented ...

RAWALPINDI: An exhibition of the Islamic calligraphy works of Aftab Ahmed Khan (late) was organised at the Rawalpindi Arts Council in connection with the celebration of Eid Milad-ul-Nabi. The purpose ...