I Love Arabic Calligraphy

these sure are pretty

http://i.imgur.com/TmQIE.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/rFQyK.gif

http://i.imgur.com/VCLV2.gif

hassan massoudy

http://i.imgur.com/eZST1.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/woexF.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/jDLct.jpg

wissam shawkat

bonus! graffiti by a1one:

http://i.imgur.com/fnvOh.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/96wcw.jpg

yessssss

this is great

written arabic has always intrigued me, especially the way it seems like words can be extended for emphasis (i.e. ‎رشـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــاد)

id really like to learn it!!!

wish they had given us some tips on how you're supposed to read this shit in my courses

gf is a printmaker/artist and also learning arabic, so i am basically gonna earn bf points swiping the contents itt

it's not emphasis, it's to keep line justification iirc

ahhh looks cool either way

xp lol

i mean tbrr you can pick up the basics of written arabic in 2-4 weeks, it's pretty straightforward. what makes the language hard is there are essentially no english cognates to help you with vocab.

It's so beautiful. I love the graffiti.

xp yeah, i picked up a multi-lingual quran and im having fun trying to copy the arabic text while looking up the letters and stuff online

oh sweet

most fun is transliterating your name and writing it over and over on scrap paper

yep. definitely have done that (داود‎)

i don't want to pedant u but it should be دافد if i am correct about your name

yeah i think thats correct for david but i think dawud is the arabic equivalent?

oh is it? i was going for straight transliteration but youre prob right!

i think so... but then again this is based on like 3 hours total of learning arabic from wikipedia

oh man I had no idea you know (a little) arabic cad! that's rad

ice cold

oh man I had no idea you know (a little) arabic cad! that's rad

― Audrey Tuomason (dayo), Wednesday, May 4, 2011 10:34 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah 4 semesters, it was cool, i can still read it but not much else. my prof for two of the semesters was a super cool guy from iraq, we all kicked it at his house one time.

lol wasn't meant to be a zing :/ xp

I just didn't want to be presumptive and say cad was fluent...okay larry time to shut up

hahaha i would be the absolute 100% first person to tell you i know a little arabic!

a few more before bed:

http://i.imgur.com/dgXL2.jpg

^ essam fattah

http://i.imgur.com/lM253.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/hxctv.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/YjMN5.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/cTjw3.jpg

^ mouneer al-shaarani

this is insane

Iranian artist Shirin Neshat is worth mentioning at this point..

http://img.slate.com/media/1/123125/123118/2135763/2137136/2138037/1_ShirinNeshat_Untitled.jpg

http://natalieshell.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/artwork_images_1110_326833_shirin-neshat.jpg

http://muzderauli.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/shirin-neshat-007.jpg?w=600

that last set dave posted is breathtaking

these are un-fucking-real:

http://i.imgur.com/7J1a1.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/tIVbO.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/zHfrd.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/XnNFF.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/vdovx.jpg

^ 'light graf' by kaalam

woah

gorgeous

damn

All of these are so insanely gorgeous!