Conference
The conference has ended.
The First Fujairah Annual Conference of Calligraphy and Ornamentation was held from the 18th to 20th of October 2024 in the Doubletree by Hilton in Fujairah
Conference Agenda
Friday 18th Oct – 4:00 to 6:00 pm
Time | Topic | Presenter |
4:00 | Registration | |
4:30 | GM Welcome Speech | Dr. Esra Alhamal, General Manager of The School of Calligraphy and Ornamentation, Fujairah, UAE |
4:35 | Keynote Speech Is there a field of study in the art of Arabic calligraphy? | Prof. Dr. Nassar Mansour Language: Arabic |
4:55 | Panel Discussion about Arabic Calligraphy | Prof. Dr. Nassar Mansour and Dr. Mohamed Hasan – Moderated by Calligrapher Hussain Alrwaishdi |
5:20 | Bringing Miniature from Manuscripts into Contemporary Art | Prof. Dr. Filiz Adiguzel, Dokuz Eylül University |
Coffee break afterwards
Saturday 19th Oct – 10 to 4 pm
Time | Topic | Presenter | Language |
10am | Registration | ||
10:30 | Digital Humanities and the Art of the Book | Mrs. Yasmin Faghihi Cambridge University | English |
11:15 | What’s in a Copy? The West African Manuscript as an Object | Dr. Susana Molins Literas University of Cape Town | English |
12:00 | The Future of Calligraphy in Digital Spaces and Communities: Reflections from Bayt Al Fann | Ms. Alia Raffia + Ms. Heba Al Shehhi Bayt Al Fann
| Arabic |
12:45 | Lunch | ||
1:30 | The Artistic Language of the Mosques of the Nile Delta, Case Studies from the City of Rosetta | Dr. Mamdouh Sakr Jameel House of Traditional Arts | English |
2:15 | The Rise of the Levha | Ms. Nuria Garcia Masip Sorbonne University | English |
3:00 | My grandfather, the Calligrapher Muhammad Shawqi | Dr. Omer Kasim Kahya Traya University | Arabic |
Coffee break afterwards
Sunday 20th Oct – 10 to 4 pm
Time | Topic | Presenter | Language |
10am | Registration | ||
10:30 | Exploring 15th to 18th Centuries Arabic Calligraphy in Traditional Architecture: The Case of Bayt al-Razzaz in Cairo | Dr. Omniya Abdel Barr Mamluk Architecture | English |
11:15 | Curvilinear Roundels: Radial Compositions in Islamic Architecture and in Manuscripts relating to Islamic Spain | Dr. Sara Choudhrey Investigative research | English |
12:00 | Clandestine Pens: Towards a Characterization of the Spanish Aljamiado Writing | Dr. Pablo Roza Candás Universidad de Oviedo | English |
12:45 | Lunch | ||
1:30 | Copyists of Manuscripts of Works by ‘Ali Shir Nava’i (15th-20th Centuries) | Prof. Dr. Aftondil Erkinov The International Islamic Academy of Uzbekistan | English |
2:15 | Critical History of Arabic Calligraphy Aesthetics | Dr. Mohamed Hasan Alexandria University | Arabic |
| 3:00 | Awards for speakers | Presented by GM |
Coffee break afterwards
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Our Speakers:
Mrs Yasmin Faghihi
Head of Near and Middle Eastern Department at Cambridge University. She is the editor of FIHRIST, the online union catalogue for manuscripts from the Islamicate world and chairs the Board of Directors.
Dr. Mamdouh M. Sakr
Mamdouh Sakr is The Prince’s Foundation programme director of the Jameel House of Traditional Arts (JHTA) in Cairo
Dr. Omnia Abdel Barr
Omniya Abdel Barr is an architect with experience in urban conservation, monument restoration and cultural heritage documentation and digitisation. Her work is focused on Mamluk art and architecture in Egypt. She holds a PhD in history from Aix-Marseille University (2015), an MSc in Conservation from Raymond Lemaire Center in KUL (2004) and a BSc in Architecture from the Fine Arts of Helwan University (2000).
Dr. Susana Molins Lliteras
Dr. Susana Molins-Lliteras is an African Humanities Program (AHP) Post-Doctoral Fellow based at the Archive and Public Culture Research Initiative and the Historical Studies Department at the University of Cape Town.
Prof. Dr. Aftandil Erkinov
Professor, Department of Classical Phiology, Tashkent State Institute of Oriental Studies
Prof. Dr. Nassar Mansour
Professor of Islamic Art/Arabic calligraphy. Master Calligrapher, Academic Researcher, Designer and Professional. Trainer in Islamic Arts Head Of Islamic Arts Department/College of Islamic -Arts and Architecture, W.I.S.E University, Amman. Visitor lecturer at the Prince’s School of Traditional Arts (PSTA), London. Member of The Islamic Manuscript Association (TIMA), Cambridge. Member of The Historians of Islamic Art Association (HIAA), USA
Dr. Omar Kasim Kahya
Calligrapher, author, artist and lecturer at Traya University based in Turkey
Ms. Nuria Garcia Masip
Nuria Garcia Masip is a professional calligrapher and doctoral candidate in Art History at Sorbonne University. She pursued her calligraphic studies under master calligraphers Mohamed Zakariya (Washington D.C.), Hasan Celebi and Davut Bektas (Istanbul).
Dr. Mohamed Hasan
Dr. Mohamed Hasan works as a lecturer of the subject of Document and Manuscript Scripts at the Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University, and the Institute of Arab Research and Studies affiliated with the League of Arab States. He holds a master’s degree in “Writing and the Book in Egypt in the Fatimid Era”, with an excellent grade, and a doctorate in “Diwani Writings in the Era of the Mamluk Sultans”, with honors.
Dr. Sara Choudhrey
Dr. Sara Choudhrey is a London-based artist and researcher, using an investigative process to explore themes of space, place, heritage and belonging through visual and material culture and surface design.
Professor Dr. Pablo Roza Candás
Professor Dr. Pablo Roza Candás specializes in the study of Aljamiado manuscript production by the Mudejar and Morisco minorities. In addition to editing and analyzing the Aljamiado corpus, his research focuses on the cultural and religious practices of Iberian Crypto-Islamic communities.
Dr. Filiz Adiguzel
Head of Traditional Turkish Arts Department in Dokuz Eylül University.
Ms. Alia Raffia
Creative Director, Digital Curator, and CEO & Founder Bayt Al Fann (Dubai)
