If you watch calligraphy artist Pokras Lampas up close, it looks like he’s just randomly sweeping his broom whichever way he likes it as he dances around the rooftop. But when the drone flies up and ...

Street artists Karim Jabbari is hoping to revive and modernise the ancient art of Arabic calligraphy in Tunisia. He painted this 250 metre (270 yard) graffiti mural onto the wall of a prison in his ...

On a nondescript wall under a viaduct near Boundary Street in Mong Kok are patches of what appear to be jumbled-up Chinese calligraphy in various shades of grey and black. Once regarded as vandalism, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle is a Paris-based reporter covering art and culture Born in 1978 in Toulouse and raised in Paris, L’Atlas aka ...

The bride of the Red Sea, as Jeddah is known, is a surprisingly colorful city, thanks in no small part to the fact that the Kingdom is home to some incredible artistic talent. One of the most public, ...

GRAFFITI is often called vandalism, but a new exhibition is challenging the idea by exploring the links between tagging and ancient calligraphy. Between Inscription and Gesture presents contemporary ...

(Photo Feature by Khaled Jabbar) TUNISIA, June 1 (KUNA) -- The "Falta" artistic Group have come up with a new extraordinary line of art that combines between graffiti and Arabic calligraphy. The group ...

Lebanese graffiti artist Yazan Halwani has taken to the sprawling streets of Beirut in an effort to paint over the city’s war-ravaged past. Using stylish calligraphy to create portraits, he has ...

With a thick black marker pen in hand, Palestinian graffiti artist Belal Khaled carefully draws an intricate Arabic calligraphic design on a silver Skoda. The art work decorates the sides of the car, ...

A Tunisian artist has turned a prison wall into a symbol of hope for young people coping with unemployment and political turmoil in the central city of Kasserine. Image caption, Street artists Karim ...