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French-Tunisian eL Seed takes Arabic calligraffiti global
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“It’s important that each message speaks to the local community but also has a universal significance,” says eL Seed, who last year on a facade of the Graduate College of Social Work at the University of Houston, Texas, translated into Arabic and rendered into calligraffiti a quote from city founder Sam Houston: “Knowledge is the food of genius, and my son, let no opportunity escape you to treasure up knowledge.” EL SEED SPOKE BY PHONE FROM HIS DUBAI STUDIO. An interview by Johnny Hanson, originally appeared in the July/August 2017 AramcoWorld magazine. Let’s start with “calligraffiti.” There are quite a...