Conference

The Fujairah Annual Conference of Calligraphy and Ornamentation will be held from the 18th to 20th of October in the Doubletree by Hilton in Fujairah  

Please RSVP below if you would like to be invited 

We have an amazing selection of guest speakers that will be joining us for the three days and it is an opportunity that is not to be missed.

Our Confirmed Speakers: 

Professor 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

‌Professor Idham Mohammed Hanash

Professor of manuscripts and Islamic arts, and the director of the Arabic Manuscript Encyclopedia at the House of Manuscripts in Istanbul.

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.

Ms. Alia Raffia

Creative Director, Digital Curator, and CEO & Founder Bayt Al Fann (Dubai)