Wendy Westover was regarded by her colleagues as one of Britain’s finest practitioners of the calligraphic arts: not only did her writing show astonishing precision, but her standards of miniature ...

Alhamra on The Mall is currently hosting the National College of Art (NCA) Calligraphy and Illumination show. The show is a collection of work of 14 students who took a one-year diploma course to ...

Once, anyone with a halfway reasonable education could write a fair hand. The first blow was the typewriter. Then schools stopped teaching traditional cursive, because it was too hard. And now ...

Bent over his desk, an Iranian illuminator puts the last touches on a gilded garden of the minuscule intertwined paisleys that have decorated the Koran for hundreds of years. One of the oldest Iranian ...

Written by the celebrated Iranian calligrapher Hamidreza Qelichkhani, “A Handbook of Persian Calligraphy and Related Arts” was rendered by Rebecca Stengel. The book has been edited by Shervin ...

It doesn’t take an understanding of the Arabic language to appreciate the beauty of the calligraphic works on display at “Calligraphy and Illumination” exhibition which launched yesterday at Katara ...