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Bahia Shehab


Bahia Shehab is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, and art historian. She is a professor of design and founder of the graphic design program at The American University in Cairo. She frequently lectures internationally on Arab visual culture and design education, peaceful protest, and Islamic cultural heritage. Through investigating Islamic art history, she reinterprets contemporary Arab politics, feminist discourse, and social issues. Her artwork has been on display in exhibitions, galleries, and streets in over twenty-six cities internationally. The documentary Nefertiti's Daughters, featuring her street artwork during the Egyptian uprising, was released in 2015. Her work has received a number of international recognitions and awards, which include a TED Senior fellowship, the BBC 100 Women list, and a Prince Claus Award. She is the first Arab woman to receive the UNESCO-Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture. Shehab holds a PhD from Leiden University in the Netherlands and is the founding director of Type Lab@AUC. Her publications include At the Corner of a Dream, A Thousand Times NO: The Visual History of Lam-Alif and the co-authored book A History of Arab Graphic Design. Her latest book, You Can Crush the Flowers: A Visual Memoir of the Egyptian Revolution, marks the ten-year anniversary of the Egyptian uprising. 

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