Yes the triplets ARE here…
Posted by nadine on August 13th, 2008
Koufiya has finally arrived!! And so did Janna and Badiya! More info here.
6 degrees of seperation
Posted by nadine on August 3rd, 2008“A US study of instant messaging suggests the theory that it takes only six steps to link everyone may be right - though seven seems more accurate.
Microsoft researchers studied the addresses of 30bn instant messages sent during a single month in 2006. Any two people on average are linked by seven or fewer acquaintances, they say.”
So, it takes only 6 steps for me to be introduced to Russel Crowe? There is hope after all!!
:)
The full article is here.
The triplets have arrived!!
Posted by nadine on July 30th, 2008Oh my, oh my… What a day!
Stay tuned for more info soon :p
A sad day for Arab cinema
Posted by nadine on July 27th, 2008The great director Youssef Chahine passed away at the age of 82. He is a landmark in Egyptian cinema and will be greatly missed. In 1997 he was awarded the Cannes award for lifetime achievement. More info here.
My favorite Arabic movie is his Al-Massir (The Destiny) and I heartily recommend it.
ps. We have the same family name but are unfortunately not related
I love typography!
Posted by nadine on July 7th, 2008I’m a bit late in posting this… Here is my interview with ilovetypography.com. Lots of interesting questions and comments from the readers. Thanks John!
The story of Palatino Arabic
Posted by nadine on June 29th, 2008
I joined Linotype in February 2005 as an intern working on Arabic fonts. As many people know, Prof. Hermann Zapf has a great working relationship with Linotype and he comes to the office quite often. Shortly after I joined, Bruno Steinert introduced me to him and told him about my work there. The following May, we had our first meeting and I presented my work done so far and we looked at prints of his Al-Ahram typeface which he had designed for the Al-Ahram newspaper in Cairo in the fifties. Bruno suggested that we revive the typeface and we scheduled that we start work in October as I was quite busy at the time. More »
De Niro’s Game
Posted by nadine on June 13th, 2008A Lebanese writer won the prestigious International Impac Dublin Literary Award. His book is about two childhood friends growing up in the Lebanese civil war. I have just ordered it from Amazon. More info here.
Vowels and poetry
Posted by nadine on May 26th, 2008“Your place in my heart” is a great song from Lebanese diva Magida El Roumi, here set in my Palatino Arabic:
Wishing for peace
Posted by nadine on May 26th, 2008There is light at the end of this long tunnel. Today the Lebanese parliament voted for a new president and it seems that there is this small chance that things will be ok for my home country. For more than 3 years now Lebanon has been beset with all sorts of political troubles. My family, my friends, my countrymen have been dragged though hell, or what one idiot called “the birth pains of a new Middle East”. Tonight it seems we are approaching the dawn of a new era, one where the Lebanese people refuse to be dragged to another civil war, to fight somebody else’s war, an era where we will learn to live together again.
It’s not easy to describe what it feels like to be Lebanese. Or what it is like to lose a country. Or to know that there’s a chance to get it back. Two weeks ago the trouble finally erupted and 65 people died in the clashes. It is a miracle that tonight my country will sleep in peace. Hope is the scariest feeling, but let’s keep our fingers crossed…
Survey of Square Kufic in Contemporary Art and Design
Posted by nadine on April 21st, 2008Mamoum Sakkal is carrying out a survey on square Kufi. Click here to find out more.