Been awhile since I posted on here though I still check it frequently ;). I am considering going to Turkey in a couple weeks with the intention of spending up to three months of studying calligraphy there. My question/concern is the same thing I hear repeated across the web and friends I know who have gone...
I am fluent only in English, is there anywhere available in Istanbul that has a teacher who teaches in English because all my sources tell me if I don't speak Turkish or at best Arabic I will find myself out of luck. This is something I really want to do, though admittedly I would like to learn kufic styles rather than the more prestigious thuluth and the rest but it seems almost no one teaches kufic styles, it would still be benecial to learn any of it, from properly cutting the reed to letter formation, etc.
So any help would be muchly appreciated. Thank You :)