English typography, by contrast, was largely shaped by the printing press in the West, while Arabic letterforms evolved through lithography and scribal practices. The complexity and fluidity of Arabic ...

Palestinian artist Bilal Khalid paints Arabic letters on a bodybuilder in a gym in Gaza City April 12, 2016 (Photo: Reuters) With a thick black marker pen in hand, Palestinian graffiti artist Belal ...

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 ...