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Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès

Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès is the founding director of the Khatt Foundation and Khatt Books publishers, in Amsterdam. She works as an independent design curator, researcher, writer, designer, and publisher. She holds degrees in graphic design and design history from Leiden University (PhD, 2017), Yale University (MFA, 1990), and Rhode Island School of Design (BFA, 1987). Smitshuijzen AbiFarès specializes in typographic design research and Arab design history. She is the author of several seminal books on the topic. She is editor-in-chief of Khatt Books’ Arabic Design Library series and authored two books in this series.

Works by the Author

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As the Sun Appears from Beyond: Twenty Years of the Al Burda Award