Cartes de la dignité (Dignity Maps) is a project conceived by the DREAM collective (DRafting and Enacting the Revolutions in the Arab Mediterranean) and Leyla Dakhli. It explores the idea of dignity as a common thread in uprisings and revolutions in the Arab Mediterranean region and since the 1950. It does so through an exhibition that uses various media to showcase different experiences and historical moments related to these events. Based on research and documentation, the exhibition is an attempt to provide answers in the form of sensitive maps enriched with sounds, images, objects, and projections that reflect life trajectories, historical situations, or times of uprisings.
Exhibited as part of DREAM City Festival (2023) in Tunis and at Marc Bloch Center, Berlin (2024).
— Identity and exhibition design, contributions on sensitive maps and publications in collaboration with Philippe Rekacewicz. Visual collaborator (assisted by Philippa Dahrouj) on “Know Your Ennemy — Know Yourself”, a research project by Candice Raymond.

The Sleeper explores, in texts and drawings, the various bodily positions of refugees in the city of Beirut. 
The sleeper in ‘Refugees as City-Makers’ publication,
co-edited by M.Fawaz, A.Gharbieh, M.Harb and D.Salamé, AUB, Beirut.
— Invited contributor (drawings) with Hashem Adnan (texts).

Ḥiyakat al-Kalam (Weaving Words), is the first book in a new Young Readers series from New York University Press’s Library of Arabic Literature. The collection is made up of selections from the tenth-century tales of al-Tanukhi’s “Al-Faraj Ba’d al-Shiddah”.
Editors: Enass Khansa and Bilal Orfali.
— Illustrations: China ink on paper.

2012 - 2022

Bidayat (Beginnings) is a pan-Arab quarterly launched from Beirut in 2012 shortly after the Arab Uprisings started, and conceived as a forum for economic, socio-political and cultural production and exchange aiming to better understand developments in the Arab World. In particular: movements of resistance, protest and change for democracy and social justice in our region and all over the world. Bidayat draws inspiration from the values of freedom and equality, and defend peoples’ right to self-determination. Bidayat’s sections deal with memory and history, visual culture, literature, music, etc. Its contributors are scientists, academics, writers, journalists, critics, artists and practitioners. Bidayat can be accessed on www.bidayatmag.com. Its print edition is distributed in Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Sudan, Jordan, Iraq and Lebanon and to independent bookshops in London, Paris, Berlin and Brussels. Bidayat joins academic rigor, professional journalism and esthetic appeal and considers itself a workshop for artistic experimentation and graphic innovation. Contributors to the graphic and visual team: Ziad Bouassi, Ayman Hassan, Lynn El-Hout, Jamal Saleh, Philippa Dahrouj, Khgajag Apelian, Alaa Mansour.
— Identity Design, Art Direction (print and web), and Communication. Contributions in Layout design, Editorial illustrations, Infographics, Lettering.

2017 

Kitab Al Hawamesh, originally commissioned by the Beirut-based cultural art center Dar El Nimr in the context of its exhibition Midad, takes the form of a complimentary mass-produced book of 1000 copies 30 of which at a time stand on a bookshelf on the museum wall. Its content is driven by a research into the artefacts of the Rami Nimr collection, namely manuscripts, printed books and scribal objects, as well as through a research on the literature of manuscript practices. At its core, this project intends to explore and reveal the incredible richness of the book as an artistic object in the Arab region through a historical investigation. It explores the materiality of the manuscript, challenges the authority of center and periphery, and animates this tension through narrative, illustration and graphic design. Ultimately it is a political project interested in inscribing current design practices within the rich history they belong to.
The book has been shortlisted for the Jammel Prize 2021 and has been exhibited at the Victoria & Albert museum in London, and toured in Chile, Argentina and the UAE.
— Two-color offset artist book, 1000 copies, 14.8x21cm. Produced by Dar El Nimr, Beirut.