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Calligrapher Wissam Shawkat [afikra Conversations]

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Join us as we interview Calligrapher Wissam Shawkat on our afikra Conversations series on January 28.

Date: Thursday, January 28
Time: 12PM NYC | 5PM London | 7PM Beirut
Hosted By: Mikey Muhanna (afikra)

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Wissam Shawkat spent his teen summers lettering for a local sign shop before he began studying for a degree in Civil Engineering at Basra University, graduating in 1996. The life as a Civil Engineer, though, was not Shawkat’s destiny, and the point where his affinity for letterforms would wait no longer quickly came. In recent years, Shawkat has become known for a new calligraphic style, Al Wissam, which references a number of traditional scripts including Sunbuli, Jali Diwani, Eastern Kufic, and Thuluth, bringing them together with modern design.

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