Friday, March 3, 2023
1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
MacMillan 115
About the Presenter
Dr. Abbas Mousavi is an Iranian linguist who lives in the Washington, DC area. He is a native speaker of Persian-Farsi and earned his Ph.D. in second language assessment from Griffith University, Australia. His passion for Arabic calligraphy goes back to his childhood when he was growing up in the city of Qom, Iran. He specializes in the nineteenth-century style of Thuluth calligraphy that is used in writing the Quranic chapters and the Hadiths. Largely inspired by the late master Hashim Mohammad Al-Baghdadi, Mousavi’s style displays distinctive micrographic and symmetrical features.