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Reminder about tomorrow’s Calligraphic Africa Lecture

20 August 2012

This is a reminder about the third lecture in the “Calligraphic Africa” series which is scheduled for 13h00 on the 21st of August (tomorrow) and will take place in the HUMA Seminar room, Humanities Building, University Avenue South, Upper Campus, University of Cape Town.

Calligraphic Africa 2012

6 August 2012

The Tombouctou Manuscripts Project will be hosting a series of lunch time conversations entitled “Calligraphic Africa: on the means and ends of writing”.

Hamidi Belaid Calligraphy Workshops

22 July 2012

This will consist of a series of 8 hands- on workshops in which master calligrapher, Belaid Hamidi, will introduce the main principles of the different eastern and western Arabic calligraphic scripts.

Tombouctou Manuscripts Newsletter

12 July 2012

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“Tombouctou : Pour une histoire de l’érudition en Afrique de l’Ouest”

18 June 2012

Le Conseil pour le développement de la recherche en sciences sociales en Afrique (CODESRIA) et le Human Science Research Council (HSRC) d’Afrique du Sud a eu une discussion autour du livre “Tombouctou : Pour une histoire de l’érudition en Afrique de l’Ouest”, publié en anglais sous le titre “The meanings of Timbuktu”, par Souleymane Bachir Diagne (Columbia University, USA) et Shamil Jeppie (University of Capetown, Afrique du Sud).