Book Launch of "A History of Arab Graphic Design"

On Saturday 28 November, AUC Press celebrated the launch of its newest book, 'A History of Arab Graphic Design,' with the authors, Bahia Shehab and Haytham Nawar. The event was held in Ewart Hall, on the AUC Tahrir Campus, and in the presence of almost a hundred attendees, from graphic design students and professors, to journalists and friends of AUC Press.

The authors dedicated their hour-long presentation “to all the forgotten Arab designers,” noting that their book is “only the beginning,” since many more designers from the Arab world still merit wider recognition. “We are simply scratching the surface,” said Shehab, a Lebanese designer and practicing artist who is professor and founder of the graphic design program at AUC and the founding director of TYPE Lab.

In the question and answer session that followed, Haytham Nawar, who is associate professor of design and chair of the department of the arts at AUC, said he hoped one day to see “a museum dedicated to Arab graphic design,” since there is no institution today devoted to collecting and archiving this creative heritage of the Arab world.

Signed copies of A History of Arab Graphic Design are available in the AUC Bookstores (paperback, 360 pp., 659 color illustrations, 21 x 24cm, ISBN 9789774168918, LE800, for sale worldwide).
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