Re: Book review and article about Arabic typography

["Thomas Milo" <t dot milo at chello dot nl>]

for those interested: the PDF with the Al Computer Magazine articles has
been updated and now contains an English abstract:

www.decotype.com/AlKumbyuutar_cover_story.pdf  (8.5 Mb)

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Thomas Milo wrote:
>> Dr Boutros of Dar Assayad in Beirut kindly took the trouble to read
>> my various publications about Arabic typography. He summarized them
>> into a technical introduction to the review of Huda Smitshuijzen Abi
>> Fares' Comprehensive Sourcebook of Arabic Typography that I wrote
>> for the April issue of the Leiden academic journal Bibliotheca
>> Orientalis. It is followed by the review of the chapter on script
>> identification by Mohamed Zakariya. In addition to that, the veteran
>> publisher and Arabic typography expert Samy Dergham helped with the
>> terminology and contributed an article about his own work in this
>> field. The article also contains an introduction to the concept of
>> Unicode. 
>> 
>> The publication was timed to coincide with the Gulf Information
>> Technology Exhibition which is presently held in Dubai UAE.
>> 
>> I posted a PDF of the relevant pages of Al-Computer, Communications
>> and Electronics Magazine (in case it is difficult to obtain the
>> original), to which I added a copy of the original English article,
>> for those who don't read Arabic.
>> 
>> 
>> t
>> 
>> Annex - please download form here:
>> www.decotype.com/publications/AlKumbyuutar_cover_story.pdf
>> 
>> Dar Assayad
>> http://www.alanwar.com/anwar/darassayad.shtml
>> http://www.darassayad.net/
>> 
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