UTW 2026

Session Host

Sina Fakour

Sina Fakour is a visual artist, graphic and type designer, researcher, and educator. His work explores the concepts of language, writing systems, code, and translation, expressed through a wide range of mediums, including print, multilingual typography and type design, editorial design, creative coding, installation, tool-making, video, and more. Central to his practice is engagement with both ancient and contemporary writing systems, focusing on their historical and social dimensions. This includes extensive research at ANRT on the typographic representation of Linear Elamite (2300–1880 BCE), the oldest known syllabic writing system. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the American University of Beirut (AUB) and part of the AUB Arabic Type Unit.

Sessions at this workshop:
 Weds, 14:00 Intro to Type Design: Latin extended, Arabic, Bengali
 Thurs, 16:50 Elamite Scripts: Philology, Typography, and Encoding
 Fri, 13:10 From Qalam to keyboard: Mapping Arabic Unicode and proposing a new input method for Arabic script

 Overview