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April 7 & 14, 2018-Arabic Calligraphy Workshop with Pablo Khalid Casado
April 7, 2018 @ 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Experience the beauty of Arabic thuluth style script with our visiting master calligrapher Pablo Casado from Spain. Classes will be held over two Saturdays, April 7 & April 14 at Diyanet Center of America from 12:00pm-4:30pm on both days (total of 9 hours of instructional time).
Where: Diyanet Center of America (9610 Good Luck Rd, Lanham, MD 20706)
When: 12:00pm-4:30pm both days (April 7 & 14)
**For first time students that need materials, please choose the option “with materials.”
Pablo Khalid Casado is a master calligrapher from Spain. He studied with several great masters in Turkey and Spain, including, master calligrapher Nuria Garcia Masip, and Turkish masters Hasan Celebi and Ferhat Kurlu. He received his Icazet (diploma) in 2014 in both thuluth and naskh scripts from IRCICA (Research Center of Islamic Art, History and Culture) in Istanbul, Turkey. He has taught classes in U.S., Europe and the Middle East. For additional information, please read our blog about Pablo. You can also visit his website and instagram page: sacred-lines.com| https://www.instagram.com/sacredlinesart/
Arabic Thuluth script is one of the oldest and popular scripts of the arabic calligraphic tradition. The class will cover a step-by-step guide to writing the arabic letters in Thuluth style script according to the Ottoman tradition.