Speaker Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès

Dr. Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès is the Founding Director of the Khatt Foundation and Khatt Books publishers, in Amsterdam. She works as an independent design curator, researcher, writer, designer, and publisher. She holds degrees in graphic design and design history from Leiden University (PhD, 2017), Yale University (MFA, 1990), and Rhode Island School of Design (BFA, 1987). Dr Smitshuijzen AbiFarès specialises in Arabic script and typographic design research, and Arab design history. She is the author of the first seminal book entitled Arabic Typography, A Concise Sourcebook (2001, 2025), and several other books and essays on typography and graphic design from the SWANA region. She is editor in chief of Khatt Books’ Arabic Design Library series for which she wrote two books.