1972 Zajal competition ad unearthed

Image credit Lebanon Dikkene

Lebanon Dikkene on Instagram has unearthed one of those super rare gems! An ad for the Zajal competition that took place in the Kamil Chamoun sports stadium on June 10 1972. Now truth be told, all my references indicate that the duel happened on June 10, so why the ad indicates June 10-11 is beyond me (maybe the people got to vote on the 11th?). Still the rarity of the ad and the sleek typography plus the 7UP sponsoring the whole thing is truly incredibly rare. If you like Zajal please head over to this link to see the whole duel. The duel by the way is one of the landmarks and the more I research it the more information comes up - basically the creme de la creme of Zajal poets were pit against one another (Zaghloul el Damour, Sayyed Mohammad Moustapha, Zein Chaib, Moussa Zghaib and the list continues!)....

Typography Day 2020 Amman, Jordan.

Typography Day will be organized for the Thirteenth time on 28th, 29th February and 1st March 2020 at The Faculty of Arts and Design, The Applied Sciences University, Amman, Jordan with support from The Lebanese University, IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay, India Design Association (InDeAs) and Aksharaya.

The theme for this year's event is 'Typographic Dialogues: Local-Global'.
The Typoday 2020 venue originally scheduled to be held at Beirut, Lebanon is now being held at Amman, Jordan.
The event will feature a day of workshops on Typography and Calligraphy followed by two days of conference dedicated to 'Typographic Dialogues: Local-Global'. The international conference will be devoted to addressing issues faced by type designers, type users and type educators. The conference includes presentations by invited keynote speakers, eminent academicians, blind juried papers, industry professionals, research scholars and students. The event will also host an exhibition of selected posters and typographic works of students and faculty members from Design Institutes.

Registration Open on this link.
Do register as early as possible, and for all queries contact typodaybeirut2020@gmail.com