Ziad Sayid Rajab
Dr Ziad Rajab is the director of the New English School and a Tareq Rajab Museum board member. In addition to being a human resource specialist, he is involved in the arts,
and has non-professional certifications in bookbinding, illumination, portraiture, oil painting and pottery. He is also an accomplished flautist. Islamic Chinese Calligraphy in the Tareq Rajab Museum of Islamic Calligraphy. Arab and Persian merchants and traders have been plying the silk routes to China for hundreds of years, back to the pre-Islamic era with ancient communities in various coastal cities. These communities expanded with the introduction of Islam and over the years, Middle Eastern peoples intermarried with the local Han Chinese creating a culture with its own unique blend of Confucian and Islamic traditions and practices.
In this presentation, a brief history of the Arabs in China is discussed followed by an introduction to the development of Islamic Chinese calligraphy, highlighted with items from the Tareq Rajab Museum of Islamic Calligraphy.