• Parody and Contextualization in Lebanese Album Covers 

  Khoury, Melissa Plourde (2019-03-01)

  This article is a textual analysis initiating the examination of twelve album covers in relation to Lebanon. The covers are examined through the trans-contextualization of diverse and eclectic fusions. Such covers create ...
• Challenging Panopticism through Representations : Burj al-Murr 

  Khoury, Melissa Plourde (2018-11-23)

  The Burj al-Murr appears in the Beirut cityscape as a towering concrete tube dotted with rectangular windows. The construction of the tower began in 1974. The eruption of the Lebanese Civil War in 1975 radically altered ...
• Digital Visual Identifiers for Sound from Palestine: Exploring Less-Charted Areas in Design Discourse 

  Khoury, Melissa Plourde (2025-04-02)

  Regardless of their ubiquity, the design of digital visual identifiers for sound and music has been disregarded in published discourse that is instead dominated by covers as printed packages primarily dedicated to ...
• Arabic Calligraphy and Patterns: Contemporary calligraphic arabesque 

  Abdel Baki, Randa (Typoday Publications, 2016-02)

  This presentation focuses on the development of Arabic calligraphic monograms that are translated into multiple interpretations of pattern designs. The process opens up many design solutions that are each unique in their ...
• Coupling Bilingual Typefaces 

  Abdel Baki, Randa (Industrial Design Centre, 2013-03)

  This presentation focuses on the process of designing and coupling experimental display typeface in Latin and Arabic. As the two scripts are in opposite directions, and the glyphs are different in many aspects, it is vital ...
• Harmonizing Bilingual Layouts: A Proposal of Latin–Arabic Typographic Classifications 

  Abdel Baki, Randa (2023-09-18)

  Under the influence of globalization and multinational communication, the English language has become the steering script utilized in visual design. It has displaced other local languages and scripts and imposed a monolingual ...
• Bilingual Design Layout Systems: Cases from Beirut 

  Abdel Baki, Randa (2013-07-01)

  This paper identifies and analyzes the challenges of bilingual design layout systems in Beirut. With the rapid spread of globalization, English and Arabic often enter the public realm together. As the design industry also ...
• On Being Simultaneously Arab and “Modern”: Saloua Raouda Choucair’s Design Between Science and Sufism 

  Taan, Yasmine Nachabe (2025-01-07)

  This article discusses Saloua Raouda Choucair’s commitment to design through her combined interest in science and Sufism. Her artistic and design accomplishments portray her as a resolute and determined woman who actively ...
• Towards a “Glocal” Teaching of the History of Graphic Design 

  Taan, Yasmine Nachabe (2024-11-28)

  This article examines the teaching of graphic design history in Lebanon and other Arab countries, with a focus on the incorporation of a local perspective in the curriculum. The study brings attention to overlooked elements ...
• The Agency of Discursive Design Exists in the Industrial 

  Dabaghi, Karma (Sapienza University of Rome, 2021)

  Can there be a closer collaboration between academic design and the industrial world? This paper outlines common territory between Discursive Design and industrial market forces and proposes a partnership for a more ...
• Artificial Intelligence and Learning of Students with Dyslexia: A Brief Review 

  Dabaghi, Karma; D’Urso, Stefano; Sciarrone, Filippo (Springer Nature, 2024-07-17)

  In the new global reality, distance learning has grown exponentially, and students with Specific Learning Disorders (SLD), i.e., those with dyslexia, dysorthographia, or dyscalculia, struggle to learn. Because they have ...
• Diversity in Functionality, Materiality, and Style of Monochrome Seljuq Ceramics 

  El Sabeh, Nour (Lebanese American University, 2024-07-26)

  This thesis investigates the often-overlooked blue molded monochrome ceramics produced during the Seljuq period in Iran, spanning the mid-eleventh to late-twelfth centuries. While previous art historical studies have focused ...
• Nasser Majed: A Hidden Narrative of Calligraphic Transformation in the Second Half of the 20th Century 

  Ghannoum, Rima (Lebanese American University, 2024-05-20)

  Research on Arabic calligraphy during the 20th century has mainly focused on prominent calligraphers who have mastered the “art” of calligraphy. However, this focus overlooks the functions of calligraphy in the second ...
• The Gem of Tripoli, A Unique Mamluk Star Domical Pattern, where Visual Arts and Mathematical Sciences Intersect 

  Shehabeddine, Rana (Lebanese American University, 2024-05-21)

  Hidden within the labyrinthine streets of Trāblus ash-Shām lies a forgotten monument from the Mamluk period, known as al-Mashhad, overlooked by travelers and erased from local memory. Despite its central location, this ...
• Thuluth Script on Metal Objects: An Integral Decorative Element in Mamluk Art During the Bahrī Period (1250- 1382) 

  Aboul-Naja, Iyad (Lebanese American University, 2024-05-21)

  This research examines the intricate Arabic calligraphy adorning opulent metallic objects dating back to the 14th-century Mamluk Bahrī period (1250-1382). Despite being overshadowed or assimilated within the broader ...
• The Mosques of Beirut in the Late 19th Century: 1850-1914 

  Mehio, Yasmine (Lebanese American University, 2023-12-22)

  This thesis is a historical and architectural investigation of the fourteen mosques built in Beirut between 1850 and 1914 when the city underwent a drastic change that altered its identity, role, and position in the region. ...
• The Craft of Interiors 

  Hijazi, Farah Ahmad (Lebanese American University, 2024-01-03)

  This study examines interior scenes in the celebrated Safavid Shahnameh of 1525 produced for Shah Tahmasp, highlighting their contribution as a unique category within architectural representations in Persian art. It ...
• The Arab Garçonne: being simultaneously modern and Arab in 1920s and 1930s Palestine, Lebanon, and Egypt 

  Lewis, Reina; Taan, Yasmine Nachabe (Bloomsbury Pub., 2021-06-03)
• Negotiating an entry to modernity through Marie al-Khazen's photographs (1920–30) 

  Gorman, Anthony; Irving, Sarah (I.B. Tauris, 2020-11-26)
• Reading Marie al-Khazen's photographs : gender, photography, mandate Lebanon 

  Taan, Yasmine Nachabe (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020-11-26)

  The Lebanese photographer Marie al-Khazen seized every opportunity to use her camera during the years that she was active between 1920 and 1940. She not only documented her travels around tourist sites in Lebanon but also ...

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