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A History of Arab Graphic Design traces the people and events that were integral to the shaping of a field of graphic design in the Arab world. Examining the work of over eighty key designers from Morocco to Iraq, and covering the period from pre-1900 to the end of the twentieth century, Bahia Shehab and Haytham Nawar chart the development of design in the region, beginning with Islamic art and Arabic calligraphy, and their impact on Arab visual culture, through to the digital revolution and the arrival of the Internet. They look at how cinema, economic prosperity, and political and cultural events gave birth to and shaped the founders of Arab graphic design. ....
The Daily Heller: An Overdue Arab Design History Book (Part 1) (American University in Cairo Press) by Bahia Shehab and Haytham Nawar is an essential new textbook for students and graphic designers from East and West. Over the past two decades, Arabic type and typography has been well-chronicled through books, exhibitions and conferences. Yet a broader historical narrative has not been available until now. You Can Crush the Flowers: A Visual Memoir of the Egyptian Revolution marks the 10-year anniversary of the uprising. Nawar has worked at the Ionian Centre for Art and Culture in Kefalonia, Greece, has taught at the School of Design in Hong Kong, and is currently associate professor of design and the chair of the department of the arts at the American University in Cairo. Nawar was also a Fulbright Visiting Artist at the School of Visual Arts, and visiting scholar conducting post-doctorate research at the ArtSci Center of UCLA. ....
“You just couldn’t go,” Pinkney, a Miami resident, told NBC 6. A database at Tougaloo College lists Miami Beach and Coral Gables as potential “Sundown Towns.” The historian behind the database, James Loewen, went on to detail them in a book titled “Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism.” Local historians Marvin Dunn and Dr. Paul George say many towns with “beach” in their names were “Sundown Towns” because Black people had to be off the beach after dark. At times, they also excluded Jewish people, Latinos, and anyone considered not to be white. Pinkney says she remembers visiting her family at work on Miami Beach but having to leave before evening. ....