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^{Hazine’s new logo}

We are proud to release our new logo. Designed by Marwa Gadallah, Hazine’s Art Editor, alongside the rest of the team, it is the product of over six months of brainstorming and drafts. But it is also reflective of all of the changes that have been going on at Hazine over the last year. For one thing, we’ve been doing more Arabic content. We’re running more guides and resources on researching various regions and peoples from the Kurds to Afghanistan. We’re publishing essays and criticism on pedagogy, museums, archives, typography and more. And as we become more criticism-oriented, you’ll see more comics, more photo essays, things that break moulds.

We would like to thank the following sources for our rotating images on our header.

The British Library for a leaf of a 16th century Qur’an.

16th century Qur'an from India, Add MS 18497, ff. 118v - 119r. The centre text pages of this Indian Qur'an are distinguished by their carpet page design. The text here is split up with alternating scripts in various coloured inks. The first, middle and last lines are written in muhaqqaq script, a popular style for large illuminated Qur'ans as its angular and cursive features giving the calligrapher an opportunity to combine fluidity with rigidity. These lines alternate in gold and blue on a white ground.

Hill Museum and Manuscript Library for a Coptic manuscript from the Monastery of Saint Macarius, Egypt

Archnet for Bebek, Istanbul Fishing on the Bosphorus (Bebek, Istanbul, 1958, Walter Denny)

The Getty for Sainte Sophie (After 1883. Sébah & Joaillier. Pierre de Gigord collection of Photographs of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey Series III, Getty Research Institute 96.R.14 (C19.8a))