A Virginia school district is defending a classroom assignment that required students to practice calligraphy by writing the Muslim statement of faith, “There is no god but Allah. Muhammad is the ...

This exhibition Islamic Calligraphy in Practice and its companion exhibition,Writing the Word of God: Calligraphy and the Qur’an, explore Islamic art’s quintessential art form: calligraphy. In the ...

Calligraphy creates beautiful, artistic text. Calligraphy is fun to learn and used to create invitations, thoughtful letters to friends and even make sure your journal memories read as beautifully as ...

Thanks to computers and tablets, good handwriting seems less important than ever. But handwriting is an important developmental skill, and your handwriting says a lot about you. We spoke with ...

Tong Yang-Tze is reviving an ancient but disappearing practice and making it contemporary — writ large. “Everything happens in your mind,” Tong Yang-Tze explained. “You just express it.” Here she ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Stockholm: As young children went back to school across Sweden last month, many of their teachers were putting a new emphasis on printed ...