Arabic calligraphy has a rich history spanning a millennium. As Islam forbids portraying images of sentient beings, artists in Muslim countries turned to calligraphy for the beautification of ...
“So…are you Middle Eastern?” I had just walked into the American Sephardi Federation office in lower Manhattan, where 20 ...
Based in Turkey, the Islamic scholar Yamamoto Naoki has a front-row seat to witness the popularity of Japanese culture in the Middle East. His explorations of the overlapping sensibilities of Arabic ...