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Layla AlAmmar
Layla AlAmmar is a writer and academic from Kuwait.
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Calligraphy as Identity: Defining Arabness in Script
When a line makes its way from a 1919 poem by Kahlil Gibran to a 1965 melody sung by Fairuz to a calligraphic piece by the Dubai-based artist Majid al-Yousef, who set the words down in the diwani script that goes back half a millennium — this is "Arabness."