Here is some information about three forthcoming conferences which may be of interest to those concerned with Middle Eastern printing and publishing:-
15-18 September 2005, Helsinki, Finland
Annual Conference of the Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI)
Papers include:
Oded Ezer: Contemporary Hebrew typography as an expression of a new identity
Ebru Baranseli & Ipek Torun: Alphabetical revolution and the effect of Turkish
typographic design
Nadine Chahine: Linotype Matrix [Arabic]
Carolyn Puzzovio: Mesrob & Yacob - the story of the Armenian alphabet
Kamal Mansour: Nastaliq style through open type
Adi Stern: Aleph=X: Hebrew type on the edge
Full details at http://www.atypi.org/07_Helsinki
2-4 November 2005, Paris, France
Second International Symposium: History of Printing and Publishing
in the Languages and Countries of the Middle East
Held at the Bibliothèque nationale de France
31 papers and presentations on printing & publishing in Arabic, Armenian, Hebrew, Ladino, Persian, Syriac and Turkish
Full programme, abstracts and other details at http://perso.wanadoo.fr/colloque.imprimes.mo/en/index.html
2-4 December 2005, Budapest, Hungary
Conference on Sacred Texts and Print Culture: the case of the Koran and the
Bible of the Orthodox Churches during the 18th and 19th centuries
Further details from the coordinator, Cristian Iacob Bogdan, at [log in to unmask]
Geoffrey Roper
Cambridge
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