Dripping in “Arab nostalgia”, 3asal mag platforms MENA creatives who are abandoning conformity and thrashing outdated stereotypes
2022
"Tumanba Khan, His Wife, and His Nine Sons", Folio from a Chingiznama (Book of Genghis Khan)
1571
"A Bathhouse Keeper is Consumed by Passion for his Beloved", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi
1572
"Akbar With Lion and Calf", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
1505
Futuh al-Haramayn (Description of the Holy Cities)
1500
"Captured Indian Raja Brought to Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni", Folio from a Majma al-Tavarikh (World Histories)
1400
"Bahram Gur and the Indian Princess in the Dark Palace on Saturday", Folio 23v from a Haft Paikar (Seven Portraits) of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja
1405
Futuh al-Haramain (Description of the Holy Cities)
1525
"Design for a Clock in the Form of an Elephant with an Indian Driver", Folio from a Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by al-Jazari
1314
"Preparing Medicine from Honey", from a Dispersed Manuscript of an Arabic Translation of De Materia Medica of Dioscorides
1223
Leaf with Arabic Prayers
1713
"Entertainment in a Garden", Folio from a Khamsa of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi, Matla' al-Anvar
1550
Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript
1300
Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript
1300
Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript
1300
Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript
1300
Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript
1300
Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript
1300
Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript
1300
Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript
1300
Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript
1300
Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript
1300
"Prince Killing a Lion", Folio from the Davis Album
1600
"Bahram Gur Exhibiting his Prowess in Wrestling at the Court of Shangul, King of India", Folio from the First Small Shahnama (Book of Kings)
1275
Lyon Arabic is the new counterpart of a Commercial Type favourite, informed by Naskh and Nastaliq scripts
2020
Swans, Lamborghinis, Indian luxury and Wild Wild Country inform Futur Neue’s new font
2019
Manuscript Leaves from an Arabic Manuscript
The View from Mumbai: three projects honouring and innovating with Indian street typography
2024
Hark1karan’s documentation of the Indian Farmers’ Protest shows the multifaceted nature of activism
2022
We dive into a new archive of over 1,000 book covers from the Arab world
2020
Introducing The Irregular Times, India’s first quarterly art and design newspaper
2022
Music, typography and Indian politics combine in Suprit Parulkar’s design portfolio
2020
Samar Maakaroun’s visual identity for The Mosaic Rooms challenges reductive narratives around Arab identities
2026
Arabic and Latin typography don’t have to mimic each other to be harmonious says Montasser Drissi
2019
The View From Cairo: how Helmi Eltouni’s al-Hilal book covers carved a modern Arab aesthetic
2024
“I am trying to show what home looks like for me”: Illustrator Dom Campistron shines a light on queer stories from Basque culture
2021
Hussein Alazaat on children’s books from the 60s-90s and why they demonstrate the “highest peak of Arabic book-making history”
2022
“The key is irregularity”: This Arabic font is made to accommodate dyslexic readers
2024