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Khalil al-Zahawi

5th Jun 2007
  • Calligraphy
  • People Who Do

I just read that the leading Arabic calligrapher, Khalil al-Zahawi, has been shot and killed in Baghdad.

BBC News report of his death

Reaction to his death on the “Road to Iraq” blog which is where the example of his work (at right) is from. Click the link for more, and larger versions.

Wikipedia entry on Khalil al-Zahawi

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The Ministry of Type is a site about type, typography, lettering, calligraphy and other related things that inspire me. I am a designer, illustrator and front-end developer with over 20 years experience in web, print and identity and am based on the south coast of England. I love hand-tracing and recreating old designs as vector artwork, and there are many examples of that in this site.

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