They had, on one side, a decorative, star-shaped Arabic calligraphy saying: “God, increase my knowledge.” On the other side, they had the text of the Muslim Shahada, the “testimony,” which ...

Some parents had vehemently protested an assignment for students to practice calligraphy by writing the shahada, or Muslim statement of faith. While such a dramatic reaction from administrators ...

This calligraphy lesson -- the contents of which students would have to do independent research to understand, something ninth graders aren't wont to do -- focuses not on what the shahada means ...

The parents in Augusta County have reason to be upset over a teacher assigning students the task of tracing the shahada written in calligraphy. But the reason for their outrage is not the reason ...

Joumana Medlej's Arabic Kufi calligraphy of the Christian text from 1 Corinthians which begins "Love is patient, love is kind", drawing on a Middle Eastern Christian tradition of Arabic bibles ...