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  • Joost van Schendel

    publisher

    BULAAQ Publishing is a small, independent and non-religious publishing house. We publish only in Dutch on the Middle East, North Africa and Islam in the fields of history, language, politics, poetry

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  • script
  • naskh
  • kufi
  • bilingual
  • cross cultural
  • tools
  • Khatt projects

    We live to work!

    Here is an overview of our projects past, present and future.

  • Book 1 Aug 2007

    Typographic Matchmaking

    This book is now available for ordering online from Nijhof & Lee and BIS Publishers.

    As the world moves forward towards a more international (design) society, the need for fonts that can support multi-scripts becomes imperative. Technology is now capable of supporting many scripts on...

  • Book: Edo Smitshuijzen

    Arabic Font Specimen Book

    The Arabic Font Specimen book is finally published and available! Good news for all of you who have been patiently waiting. To order your copy or browse through the book visit Khatt Books site or...

  • Book Edo Smitshuijzen 1 Jan 2008

    Arabic Type Specimen Book

    Finally, there will be an overview of Arabic type on the market.

  • Arabic Calligraphy Workshop 3.0

    charm techniques

    Following the success of the first and the second workshops, we are aiming to delve further into the possible re-integration of Arabic Calligraphy in our cultural identity. We are pleased to announce...

  • The Typographic Matchmaking Project: Developing…

    Willem Velthoven interviewing the Typographic Matchmaking Type Designers: Nadine Chahine, Gerard Unger, Tarek Atrissi, Peter Bilak, Pascal Zoghbi, Lucas de Groot, and Lara Assouad Khoury.

  • conference program

    Khatt Kufi Kaffiya, the printable symposium…

    Lectures are described in detail with timings and links to the speakers' biographies.

    The symposium program has been evolving and includes topics of every aspect of contemporary Arabic visual culture and identity, going beyond the stereotypes of what is associated with Arabic culture...

  • Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Self-Design Enzo Mari Furniture

    27
    Sep 2022
    - with Niels Albers

    High quality furniture that can be made by anyone, with simple tools and without special training – this was the idea behind Enzo Mari’s design approach. As a tribute to the work of the communist...

  • Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Haeckel Hunt

    1
    Mar 2021
    - Augmented Reality Game

    Available in the App Store and Google Play store ! This Augmented Reality app adds an extra dimension to the Haeckel scavenger hunt we have set out in the Oosterdok area. Search for the eye-catching...

  • Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Communist Carpenting

    23
    Jul 2022
    - Self-Design Enzo Mari Furniture with Enzo and Niels

    High quality furniture that can be made by anyone, with simple tools and without special training – this was the idea behind Enzo Mari’s design approach. As a tribute to the work of the communist...

  • Project, Font Family Huda Smitshuijzen Abifares 23 May 2007

    Fresco Arabic: western Latin meets western Kufi.

    New Arabic companion to the Fresco font family

    This project is a collaboration between the renown Ducth type designer, Fred Smeijers, and the Arab type designer Lara Assouad-Khoury

  • Project, Font Family Huda Smitshuijzen Abifares 24 May 2007

    BigVesta Arabic: legibility in monumental…

    New Arabic companion to the BigVesta font family

    This project is a collaboration between the renown Dutch type designer, Gerard Unger, and the renown Arab type designer Nadine Chahine.

  • Private Workshop Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Self-Design Enzo Mari Furniture

    with Niels Albers

    High quality furniture that can be made by anyone, with simple tools and without special training – this was the idea behind Enzo Mari’s design approach. As a tribute to the work of the communist...

  • Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Communist Carpenting

    8
    Oct 2022
    - with Niels Albers

    High quality furniture that can be made by anyone, with simple tools and without special training – this was the idea behind Enzo Mari’s design approach. As a tribute to the work of the communist...

  • Fresco Arabic: western Latin meets western Kufi.

    New Arabic companion to the Fresco font family

    This project is a collaboration between the renown Ducth type designer, Fred Smeijers, and the Arab type designer Lara Assouad-Khoury

  • Typographic Matchmaking Pilot Project

  • TheMix Arabic: balancing handwritten and…

    This project is a collaboration between the renown Dutch type designer, Lucas de Groot, and the renown Arab calligrapher and designer, Mouneer Al-Shaarani, and with technical support from Pascal...

  • BigVesta Arabic: legibility in monumental…

    New Arabic companion to the BigVesta font family

    This project is a collaboration between the renown Dutch type designer, Gerard Unger, and the renown Arab type designer Nadine Chahine.

  • TheMix Arabic: balancing handwritten and…

    This project is a collaboration between the renown Dutch type designer, Lucas de Groot, and the renown Arab calligrapher and designer, Mouneer Al-Shaarani.

  • Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Communist Carpenting

    5
    Nov 2022
    - with Niels Albers

    High quality furniture that can be made by anyone, with simple tools and without special training – this was the idea behind Enzo Mari’s design approach. As a tribute to the work of the communist...

  • Private Workshop Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Building With Mycelium

    with Arne Hendriks

    Pigeons are seriously underappreciated. That's a mistake. Not only are they incredible navigators, fantastic cleaners-up of street left-overs, powerful cultural metaphors of hope and peace, and a...

  • Symposium Program

    Khatt Kufi Kaffiya | Symposium on Arabic Visual Culture

    We'll have the whole day to ourselves in the theatre of the brand new public library of Amsterdam (OBA) Admission and registration is from 9 on and the programme starts at 10:00 sharp. We'll have...

  • Onzichtbare Collectie: Discomedusae, Ernst…

    Hier word Dicomedusa van Ernst Haeckle beschreven door Willem Velthoven. 

  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark, Oosterdok

    Open Call 2019 Olfactory History of Oosterdok

    This open call is closed

    Before Covid19, we were planning an ambitious event in Amsterdam about the Sensory History of Oosterdok, the eastern part of the old harbour of the city. Related to this project, Mediamatic issued an...

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