ONLINE Introduction to Naskh Script Part II
ONLINE Introduction to Naskh Script Part II
May 10- 31, 2025 | Saturdays from 9 am to 10 am ET
This workshop continues from Intro to Naskh Script I, with a greater emphasis on providing feedback on the students' work. The instructor will briefly introduce a new weekly lesson that includes a few variations of each letter combination. Students are expected to work on all or part of the corresponding letter combinations independently and submit homework by Friday.
Recordings will be available
Prerequisite: Completion of Intro to Naskh Part I or equivalent beginner-level proficiency in the Naskh script for continuing students.
Refunds/Cancellations: A written notice is required at least 10 days before the first session to be eligible for a refund. No refunds will be provided after this deadline.
**Please note that this workshop requires a minimum of participants to proceed. In case of insufficient enrollment, participants will receive a full refund.
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Instructor Biography
Deniz Öktem Bektaş was born in Holland in 1976. She graduated from ‘İmam-Hatip’ high school in Istanbul in 1994. After completing her studies at the Department of English Literature at Boğaziçi University, she continued her graduate work at Georgetown University in the U.S.A. While working on her master’s at the Department of Communication, Culture, and Technology, she met Mohamed Zakariya with whom she started calligraphy lessons in riq’a and naskh. Coming back to Turkey at the end of 2002, she continued to take calligraphy lessons with Hasan Çelebi and Davut Bektaş in the scripts of riq’a, naskh, and thuluth. In 2007, she obtained her ijaza in the Naskh and Thuluth scripts. She received encouragement awards in naskh at the 7th International Calligraphy Competition organized by IRCICA in 2007 and at the Calligraphy Biennial in Sharjah in 2008. In the national calligraphy competition conducted by the Presidency of Religious Affairs of Turkey (2015), she received 3rd prize in writing several pages from the Qur’an in the script of naskh. Mrs. Öktem has participated in exhibitions in Turkey and internationally, and continues her work alongside her husband, Davut Bektaş, in their studio in Istanbul.
