Born in Alexandria, Egypt - 1943. In 1974, Ahmed Moustafa was granted a scholarship to the United Kingdom. He joined the printmaking department of the Central School of Art and Design, London, where he developed his interest in the science of Arabic penmanship and the roles of its lettershapes in the structural morphology of Islam. His investigation was inspired by the theory of 'Proportioned Script' by the celebrated Abbasid wazir and scribe Ibn Muqla (A.D.886-940) who was acclaimed as the orig