Artist and Associate Professor of Graphic Design at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar, Basma Hamdy curates a treasure of a volume that highlights and contextualizes Noha Zayed’s astounding photography by chapterizing it and punctuating it with brilliant essays and interviews around Arabic typography. Creative entrepreneur and artist, Noha Zayed’s personal Instagram account as well as the popular arabictypography account that she co-curates “cataloging Arabic lettering from all corners of the world” are often cited in lists of the best photography accounts from Egypt. View this post on Instagram Found by @ishaqmadan in Bahrain A post shared by خط (@arabictypography) on Nov 3, 2018 at 7:40am PDT Yasmine Motawy, talks to Noha Zayed about the book on the eve of the opening and book launch of Khatt: Egypt’s Calligraphic Landscape at Kodak Passageway, The exhibition runs from the 19th to the 28th of December. The decision to contextualize the photograph does change things, because in your Instagram account, a lot of the photographs gain some of their impact from being immediate and de-contextualized, unexplained, with scarce hashtag to explain the bizarre circumstances or fortuitous location you happened upon. Did this…
