A conference on “The Aesthetics of Arabic Calligraphy” will be held for three days from 9-11 May 2006. This conference will be organized by the Arabic Calligraphy Unit of the Calligraphy Center in cooperation with the General Egyptian Society for Arabic Calligraphy under the auspices of Dr. Ismail Serageldin, Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
The Center invites a group of specialists in calligraphy, Arabic language, curriculum and teaching methodology, university professors and media, in addition to Education and Arabic calligraphy experts. An exhibition of “ Arabic Calligraphy aesthetics” will held to cope with the title of the conference. It will include the work of some famous calligraphers.
Please here for the tentative program