he first “Turkish Islamic Arts Exhibition from Tradition to Future” was opened in Paris within the scope of the project prepared by the Presidency of Religious Affairs of Türkiye. The exhibition, hosted by the embassy in Paris and DITIB France at the Grand Mosque of Paris, included calligraphy, marbling, tazhib, tile, dival art, and rare Turkish handicraft arts. Within the scope of the exhibition, Nourane Ben Azzouna, lecturer on the History of Art in the Islamic World at the University of Strasbourg, gave a lecture titled “Calligraphy as a Form of Expression of Muslim Identity” in which the audience learned about the traces of calligraphy in the world and in history.