Islamic calligraphy and illustrated manuscripts have been highly ... It was not long before aesthetic considerations came to the fore. The Arabic script contains a full range of letters of manipulable ...

and just writing “el-Seed”—“El S-E-E-D." And actually, back in the day, I used to write it “E-L-S-C-I-D.” Honestly, the first time I did graffiti in Arabic, or calligraphy, I felt like Spiderman. You ...