TEHRAN – An exhibition and master class on the art of Persian calligraphy was held at the L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University in Astana by the master Iranian calligrapher Hadi Ghasemi, with the ...

Syngman Rhee, the authoritarian president of South Korea throughout the 1950s, received his advanced degrees at Harvard and Princeton. But, in his youth (Rhee was born in 1875), he had a traditional ...

Two complementary exhibitions at Asia Society Museum explore Islamic art's quintessential art form: calligraphy. Traces of the Calligrapher: Islamic Calligraphy in Practice, c. 1600-1900 and Writing ...

Introduction -- The edged pen -- The Roman alphabet -- Greek and Cyrillic -- Hebrew -- Arabic -- Indic scripts -- Tibetan -- The East Asian brush -- Chinese -- Japanese -- Korean -- Armenian and other ...