Students of Augusta County Public Schools in central Virginia are enjoying an early winter break thanks to outrage over a lesson in Arabic calligraphy. During a world geography unit on Islam on Dec.

Zhao Yizhou's calligraphy works are on display in Beijing. [Photo provided to China Daily] While calligraphy is often hard even for average Chinese people to appreciate, Zhao Yizhou has taken up the ...

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With a steady hand, Oman calligrapher Abdullah al Waili demonstrated how to write in Arabic script to a packed room at the Sackler Gallery of Art. He and Aishah Holland, a U.S.-based calligrapher, led ...

Cong Qiang owns a small school supplies store in the port city of Tianjin. While one day preparing to renovate his store, Cong began cleaning up his storehouse and discovered several writing brushes ...

Parents erupt over homework assignment asking students to write a phrase in Arabic saying "There is no God but Allah " Backlash over a homework assignment on Islam at a Virginia school led officials ...

VERONA, Va. — Schools in a Shenandoah Valley county in Virginia were closed Friday and a weekend holiday concert and athletic events were canceled amid an angry backlash about a school lesson ...

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You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. STAUNTON, Va. – A rural Virginia school district canceled classes and a ...