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\"ProfessorCCT’s Professor J.R. Osborn’s book\u00a0Letters of Light: Arabic Script in Calligraphy, Print, and Digital Design<\/a><\/em>\u00a0was announced as the\u00a0joint winner of the 2018 British Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize<\/a>\u00a0during an Award Ceremony hosted at the British Academy on November 30, 2018.\u00a0 The award, sponsored by The Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah Foundation, recognizes “books of sound scholarship which enhance understanding of the Middle East among a wider readership in the English speaking world.”\u00a0 The foundation’s representative, Sheikh Mubarak Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, the Kuwait Ambassador Khaled Al-Duwaisan, and Frances Guy, Chairwoman of the Book Prize Committee, spoke at the ceremony.<\/p>\n

From the committee’s statement:
\n“This book, as the author himself admits, was 20 years in the making and this is reflected throughout the book. One reviewer suggested that ‘This is the kind of book that great scholars sometimes write at the end of their lives: a book that sums up, in an astonishingly accessible way, decades of profound thought and dedicated research’. It is not least for that astonishing accessibility – the great pleasure that this book is to read – that it has been selected for this award.”<\/p>\n

This is the second recognition for\u00a0Letters of Ligh<\/em>t\u00a0this month, which also received an\u00a0honorable mention for the Albert Hourani Book Award<\/a>\u00a0from the Middle East Studies Association.<\/p>\n

Pictured above:\u00a0Prof. Osborn (second from right) with other honorees, the Kuwaiti Ambassador, and members of the Book Prize Committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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