Earlier this year, the Institute of Business Administration (IBA) in Karachi invited a Turkish calligrapher, Deniz Bektash, to teach its students the art of calligraphy. In a series of Zoom classes, ...

Kufic script, the oldest calligraphic form of the various Arabic scripts, is linear and bold. It developed at the end of the 7th century in Kufa, Iraq, and until about the 11th century it was the main ...

In today’s digital world, many of us don’t get to hold a pen for days. All our fingers do is tap screens and punch keyboards faster than lightning. While the focus on handwriting seems to have shifted ...

Pakistani calligraphy is undergoing an exciting renaissance. Younger artists are taking centuries-old scripts like Thuluth, Naskh, Kufic, and Diwani, and blending them with bold, modern colour ...