Speaker Abeera Kamran

Abeera Kamran is a designer, web developer, and typographer. She is an AHRC-funded PhD student at the Department of Typography and Graphic Communication, at the University of Reading. Her research investigates the design and technological challenges associated with publishing Nastaliq in digital devices. Her PhD research is titled “Reading Urdu online: Lahori Nastaʿlīq as a case study towards the realisation of a multi-lingual world wide web.” Her PhD includes the development of an open-source web typographic framework for global scripts. She is also a lecturer in Design at the University of Reading.