We wrote this book because we felt an urgent need for the documentation and preservation of our history. Growing up during the civil war in Lebanon I witnessed archives and educational institutions being destroyed every day.
Bahia Shehab and Haytham Nawar
Bahia Shehab is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, and art historian. She is Professor of Design and founder of the Graphic Design Program at The American University in Cairo, as well as the founding director of Type Lab@AUC. Her work has received a number of international awards. Her publications include You Can Crush the Flowers: A Visual Memoir of the Egyptian Revolution (Gingko Library, 2021), At the Corner of a Dream (Gingko Library, 2019), A Thousand Times NO: The Visual History of Lam-Alif (Khatt Books, 2011), and the co-authored book A History of Arab Graphic Design (American University in Cairo Press, 2020).
Haytham Nawar is a practicing artist and designer, as well as a scholar in the fields of art and design. He has built his professional and academic career over the past two decades simultaneously fulfilling the different roles. He is Associate Professor of Design and the Chair of the Department of the Arts at the American University in Cairo. Nawar is also the founding director of Cairotronica, Cairo International Electronic and New Media Arts Festival, Egypt. His most recent publications are Language of tomorrow: Towards a Multicultural Visual Communication System in a Post-Human Era (Intellect, 2020) and the co-authored book A History of Arab Graphic Design (American University in Cairo Press, 2020).
