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          During the visit, CNN meets legendary Tunisian street artist El Seed, Iraqi calligrapher Wissam Shawkat and the first collector to open a.

        1. During the visit, CNN meets legendary Tunisian street artist El Seed, Iraqi calligrapher Wissam Shawkat and the first collector to open a.
        2. For the past year, Al Hashemi has been learning the art of calligraphy after mastering the basics at a course run by Wissam Shawkat, one of the.
        3. Designed by artist Wissam Shawkat in collaboration with Erin Collins (NYUAD '14), this calligraphy is an artistic interpretation of the Arab word for graduate.
        4. Rory McCarthy, “How Tunisia's Ennahda Party Turned from Its Islamist The man leading this effort was Assef Shawkat, Bashar al- Assad's late.
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          6. Designed by artist Wissam Shawkat in collaboration with Erin Collins (NYUAD '14), this calligraphy is an artistic interpretation of the Arab word for graduate.!

          About Me

          Born in Basra in 1974, for Wissam Shawkat it was the form of four letters from the Arabic alphabet written across a school blackboard that started him on a journey that has shaped him both in early years and adulthood.

          He recalls finding peace and patience writing and repeating calligraphic letters on the dusty tiles of a makeshift shelter during a heavy aerial bombardment during the Iraq-Iran war and, spurred on by supportive parents, he became his own tutor.

          His teen summers were spent lettering for a local sign shop before he began studying for a degree in Civil Engineering at Basra University, graduating in 1996.

          The life as a Civil Engineer, though, was not Shawkat’s destiny and the point where his affinity for letterforms would wait no longer quickly came.

          In recent years, Shawkat has become known for a new calligraphic style, Al Wissam, which references a number of traditional scripts including Sunbuli, Jali Diwani, Eastern Kufic, and Thuluth, bringing them t