She first gained attention in the mid-1990s, Women"Wofen of Allah," a series of photographs depicting women in veils, their skin covered in calligraphy of Islamic poetry.
So wealthy were the family, he says, his hands sweeping upwards, that the glazed tiles on the intricate roofs were covered in calligraphy.
Every available surface within these images, including all visible skin, has been covered with Islamic calligraphy in henna — a run-on text that reads as both manic stitchery and as the subjects' suppressed thoughts made visible.
Amid little watercolors and notes covered in gilded calligraphy sat a red-and-white candy-striped shoebox crammed with index cards, "the titles of which," Macfarlane writes in his book, "formed a poem of their own: 'Long-Range Forecasts,'Graceses,' 'Clouds and Rainbows,' 'Winds.' " You could select one at random and a story would unfold.
The woman's body is covered in scar-like calligraphy.
In the two major mosques of Isfahan that Abbas built, every surface is covered with tiles featuring calligraphy, flowers and twisting tendrils, creating a haze of blue and white with yellow.
The Moroccan-born, New York-based Lalla Essaydi sets figures of women shrouded in white against white cloth backdrops, and covers every surface with calligraphy that could either obliterate them or give them a voice.
People's Tribune, a fortnightly magazine produced by the party's mouthpiece, the People's Daily (and sporting Jiang Zemin's calligraphy on its cover), published one on the eve of the congress by Yuan Gang of Peking University.
They, too, are covered with poetic verses in calligraphy.
Did he think I'd betray what our community has guarded for hundreds of years so cheaply?" "Can you imagine how terrible it would have been if they burnt this?" asked Mr Haidara, holding up a book of Hadiths (sayings of the Prophet Mohamed) – pages of exquisite calligraphy between fraying covers of Moroccan leather produced in the 14th century.
