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Khatt Chronicles: Stories on Design from the Arab World

Khatt Chronicles, in collaboration with afikra, features remarkable designers, illustrators, and researchers from the Arab World, in engaging conversations about their practice, vision, and aspirations. A podcast series that chronicles and introduces the latest explorations in Arab visual communication and material culture.

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00:41:23

Khatt Chronicles in Conversation with Golnar Adili

Khatt Chronicles: Stories on Design from the Arab World ·

2025/11/28

Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès interviews Iranian-American visual artist Golnar Adili on her journey from architecture to teaching and practicing visual arts. They discuss her work that transgresses borders and definition and how she uses the Perso-Arabic script and language as material for artistic exploration. Golnar talks about her love for science and art and how architecture brought these two passions together. She also discusses her first research trip to Tehran to investigate

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00:34:37

Khatt Chronicles in Conversation with Aude Abou Nasr

Khatt Chronicles: Stories on Design from the Arab World ·

2025/11/03

Yasmine Nachabe Taan interviews Beirut-based, French-Lebanese illustrator Aude Abou Nasr. They discuss Aude's educational and professional journey from starting in architecture into illustration and activism. Aude discusses her interest in narratives that address issues of belonging and the strife of migrants (women in particular). She also discusses her passion for projects that address justice and social issues, and her commissions and collaborations with various artists and organizations

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00:36:10

Khatt Chronicles in Conversation with Ghazal Foroutan

Khatt Chronicles: Stories on Design from the Arab World ·

2025/10/03

Roshanak Keyghobadi interviews Iranian California-based graphic designer and illustrator Ghazal Foroutan. They discuss Ghazal's journey as a designer, her educational stages, and her impactful first professional experience at Studio Shizaru in Tehran. Ghazal discusses her interest in design research and design history that developed during her postgraduate studies in the US. She mentions that her design history education (both in Iran and the U.S.) was male-centric, and expresses her gratitude to

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00:24:06

Khatt Chronicles in Conversation with Bahia Shehab

Khatt Chronicles: Stories on Design from the Arab World ·

2025/09/05

Yara Khoury Nammour interviews Cairo-based Lebanese designer and visual artist Bahia Shehab. They discuss Shehab's motivation and journey as a designer and educator. Shehab delves into political engagement, the importance of portraying an authentic image of Arab/Islamic visual heritage in order to decolonize design history discourse. They discuss her influences and how her educational development has shaped her perspective on design. Shehab elaborates on her artistic practice, her academic research,

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00:35:20

Khatt Chronicles in Conversation with Dima Nachawi

Khatt Chronicles: Stories on Design from the Arab World ·

2025/08/08

Yasmine Nachabe Taan interviews Beirut-based Syrian visual storyteller and illustrator Dima Nachawi. They discuss her professional journey, education, and projects. Dima shares her passion for making people laugh, clowning, drawing, singing, performing, shadow puppetry, and street theater. Her multidisciplinary practice is connected to her Syrian roots through which she documents and advocates for social causes and injustices. Together they unpack some of the political narratives behind her

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00:42:43

Khatt Chronicles in Conversation with Kinda Ghannoum

Khatt Chronicles: Stories on Design from the Arab World ·

2025/07/11

Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès interviews Brussels-based, Syrian-Polish designer Kinda Ghannoum. They discuss her journey into the field of design, through practical work following her graduation with a degree in architecture from the University of Damascus.Kinda shares her travails as a self-taught graphic designer and her passion for the Arabic script, lettering and typography. The conversation centers around issues of preservation of identity while saddling two nationalities, and of providing

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00:26:11

Khatt Chronicles in Conversation with Zeynab Izadyar

Khatt Chronicles: Stories on Design from the Arab World ·

2025/06/13

Roshanak Keyghobadi interviews New York-based Iranian designer Zeynab Izadyar. They discuss her journey into the field of design and textile design; beginning with her education as graphic designer in Tehran, followed by her postgraduate studies at Yale University School of Art, then backtracking to her childhood.Zeynab candidly shares stories about her creative father and her collaboration with him on "making" things, from books and furniture for her dolls, to knitting, and drawing. The moment of a

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00:37:19

Khatt Chronicles in Conversation With Samar Maakaroun

Khatt Chronicles: Stories on Design from the Arab World ·

2025/05/16

Yara Khoury Nammour interviews London-based Lebanese designer Samar Maakaroun. They discuss at length her journey into the field of branding and lettering, her work at Pentagram studio in London and what it means to be the first Lebanese partner in the studio. They cover her independent project on lettering "29 Words for 29 Letters" – playing with meanings, writing systems, and animation, to build a playful and experimental multicultural glossary, and embracing the multiplicity and complexity that

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00:24:06

Khatt Chronicles Hosts Introducing Season 4

Khatt Chronicles: Stories on Design from the Arab World ·

2025/04/18

Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès moderates a conversation between the hosts of season 4 of @khatt_chronicles. The discussion addressed the three main themes that are planned for this season, focusing on the overarching theme of Graphic Women from the SWANA region. The Khatt Foundation's latest research project that culminated in the publication "Revealing Recording Reflecting, Graphic Women from Southwest Asia and North Africa" published by Khatt Books at the end of 2024 will be used to guide the themes

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00:36:15

Khatt Chronicles in Conversation With Sahar Afshar

Khatt Chronicles: Stories on Design from the Arab World ·

2025/03/07

In this episode of Khatt Chronicles, Roshanak Keyghobadi interviews UK-based Iranian type designer and researcher Sahar Afshar. They discuss Sahar's journey into the field of type design, the challenges she faced along the way, and her views on the responsibility of designing a typeface. They discuss some of Sahar's main and award-winning type projects. They touch upon specific topics of technology and how it might facilitate certain tedious tasks and speed up the design process. They also unpack

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00:57:21

Khatt Chronicles in Conversation With Walid Bouchouchi

Khatt Chronicles: Stories on Design from the Arab World ·

2025/02/07

In this episode of Khatt Chronicles, Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès interviews France-based Algerian graphic and designer Walid Bouchouchi. They discuss his journey into the field of graphic design, his move to France (first Paris, then Marseille), and his professional transformation along the way. Walid discusses the design education and practice in Algeria in caparison with Paris and Marseille. They unpack his ideas on designing, researching, type design, publication design, and other range of graphic

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00:39:42

Khatt Chronicles in Conversation With Sina Fakour

Khatt Chronicles: Stories on Design from the Arab World ·

2025/01/10

In this episode of Khatt Chronicles, Yara Khoury Nammour interviews France-based Iranian educator and independent type designer Sina Fakour. They discuss his design teaching and the paths one can take as a graphic designer. They unpack his ideas on designing thinking, research, creative coding, type design, publication design, and a range of other graphic design practices. They zoom in on his type design process, how he develops his concepts, his interest in multiscript typeface design, and how he

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00:24:45

Khatt Chronicles in Conversation With Mitra Shasavand

Khatt Chronicles: Stories on Design from the Arab World ·

2024/12/06

In this episode of Khatt Chronicles, Roshanak Keyghobadi interviews Iranian designer Mitra Shahsavand, design director and founder of the Mitra Shahsavand Design Studio. They discuss Mitra's journey into the field of graphic design and focus on some of her impactful and challenging projects of presenting women products within the Iranian public space. They also discuss education, the role of women in the Iranian graphic design scene, and the attitudes of the new generation of designers. They end

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00:45:32

Khatt Chronicles in Conversation With Aria Kasaei

Khatt Chronicles: Stories on Design from the Arab World ·

2024/11/08

In this episode of Khatt Chronicles, Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès interviews Iranian designer Aria Kasaei, who co-founded Studio Kargah with his classmate and friend Peyman Pourhossein. They discuss his journey into the field of graphic design and the cultural engagement from Studio Kargah's humble beginnings in a basement in Tehran to its present day status, and the recent setting up of a satellite studio in Paris. Together, they discuss the archiving, exhibiting and publishing on design history in

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00:36:49

Khatt Chronicles in Conversation With Sahar Khraibani

Khatt Chronicles: Stories on Design from the Arab World ·

2024/10/11

In this episode of Khatt Chronicles, Yasmine Nachabe Taan interviews Lebanese design writer and critic, Sahar Khraibani. They discuss her journey into the field of design writing through graphic design and illustration. Together, they unpack the importance of design and critical writing at this moment in time. They discuss Sahar's major writing projects, the importance of exposing local narratives, and how to present these untold stories to a wide range of audiences. They end their discussion

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00:57:18

Khatt Chronicles in Conversation With Amir Mahdi Moslehi

Khatt Chronicles: Stories on Design from the Arab World ·

2024/09/13

In this episode of Khatt Chronicles, Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès interviews Iranian type designer and researcher Amir Mahdi Moslehi. They discuss his journey into calligraphy and type design. Moslehi discusses his extensive research into #Persian calligraphic and #script heritage, namely Nastaaliq and Manuscript Pahlevi. The discussion touches upon technologies and script-specific #design issues, and dives deeply into a number of Moslehi's award-winning type design projects.***** About Khatt

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00:25:42

Nisrine Sarkis in Conversation With Yara Khoury Nammour

Khatt Chronicles: Stories on Design from the Arab World ·

2024/08/16

Yara Khoury Nammour interviews Beirut-based Lebanese designer Nisrine Sarkis. They discuss her journey into the world of branding and lettering. Focusing initially on illustration and graphic design, Nisrine gradually realized the importance of Arabic typography to her practice after starting to work professionally as a graphic designer. Nisrine discusses her interest in display Arabic typefaces that she intends to develop out of her lettering projects. They also explore her teaching Arabic

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00:31:15

Arabic Design Library Series: In Conversation With...

Khatt Chronicles: Stories on Design from the Arab World ·

2024/07/12

***** About Khatt Chronicles *****Khatt Chronicles podcast features remarkable designers, illustrators, and researchers from the Arab World. We host engaging conversations about their practice, vision, and aspirations. In line with the rest of the Khatt foundation projects, focuses on new developments with Arab typography and design. By Arab, we mean people working with the Arabic language, script, and audience, who are not necessarily Arabs. These initiatives are dedicated to the younger generation

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01:06:03

Arabic Design Library Series: In Conversation With...

Khatt Chronicles: Stories on Design from the Arab World ·

2024/06/14

The four enter into a conversation that goes beyond describing the content of their books, addressing the challenges of undertaking design in a geographical context where material and archives are hard to find, where relying on oral history and primary accounts is key, and where distribution of printed matter is complicated.They each elaborate on the particularities of translation, of conveying the spirit of the content, and the importance of highlighting both the voice of the subject-designer as

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00:46:27

Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès in Conversation With...

Khatt Chronicles: Stories on Design from the Arab World ·

2024/05/17

They zoomed in on some of Wissam's unique projects, from his calligraphic script Al-Wissam to his Calligraforms artworks and logotype designs. They explore Wissam's process of developing a new calligraphic script and the difference between that and his process of type design. They discuss the overlaps between calligraphy, type design and graphic design work, as well as how these fields intersect and influence each other.They conclude the conversation with a chat about Wissam's favorite projects for

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