Abdulkader Arnaout is a graphic designer and a pioneer of graphic design in Syria. He has was one of the first graphic design practitioners, and was renown in his native Syria as a modernist designer and artist. Arnaout ...

“The word/image problem is ‘inside’ the problem of the image, and vice versa … the word as image, image as word; the word as limit for the image, and vice versa.”¹ According to W. J. T. Mitchell, during situations of trauma, ...

Hilmi Al-Tuni is Egyptian and one of the Arab World's most prominent and proficient illustrator and book designer. He has formed with his ubiquitous work the visual sensitivities of generations of Arab children and adults ...

Christina Rahme holds an M.A. in photography from Université Saint-Esprit de Kaslik (USEK) and is currently teaching photography at LAU. Yasmine Nashabe Taan interviewed her for this issue of al-Raida.

Marie al-Khazen (1899-1983) is an amateur photographer who took most of her photographs in the 1920s and 1930s in and around Zgharta, a village in the North of Lebanon. In this paper, I will analyze how gender — a category ...

Lebanese human rights activists see the Kafala system as a staggering social problem, which many have likened to a system of slavery. Currently supported by the Ministry of Labor, migrant workers are required to have a ...