It’s like baking a cake and you don’t have flour. So imagine you’re a designer and you want to create but your hands are tied. “90% of what we design has to have typography, because it has to communicate. Her new TypeLab project, incubated within the university as part of its centennial revamp this year, aims to document and discuss Arabic typography to create a platform for innovation and education. the 19th century, so the region was already 300 years behind Europe with this technology. When Gutenberg invented the printing press, the Arab world - at the time under the Ottoman Empire - was left behind. The only segment of society that lives with this problem day-to-day are designers,” says Bahia Shehab, Egyptian-Lebanese artist and Professor of Design at the American University of Cairo. Even teachers of Arabic are not aware that there aren’t enough Arabic fonts. “We need people to realise that there is a problem.
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