And so, we headed to a round table with lunch places laid out. Turned out, Dr Ali Al Assam (managing director of KnowledgeView Ltd) was easy enough to nab, and even willing to forego his coffee break to have a chat. That we wouldn't be able to locate the man who developed four Arabic fonts still in the Apple library for Mac back in the day - in the '80s, when the Mac was unheard of, a top secret mission - let alone ambush the creator of Arabic typefaces (fonts?) Geeza, Kufi, Damascus, Baghdad - and ask him a couple of questions.Īt an event called WAN IFRA (World Association of Newspapers and News Publishing) at a hotel by the water in Dubai last week, there must have been plenty of folks trying to nab him.
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