This initiative aims to preserve, document, and publish Arabic street signs, arabic type, signages, and street typography. Through organizing walks (expeditions) driven by curiosity and a shared interest of Arab cultures. The project spans between different countries including Lebanon, Egypt, Palestine, and Morocco.

Signs of Conflict is a project that involves collecting, archiving, and studying the Lebanese political posters produced by the different parties and movements during Lebanon’s civil war. It is premised upon the idea that the posters unfold the narratives of the prevailing political conflicts while providing insights into modern Arab visual culture. The signs of conflict project’s output include an ARCHIVE, related EXHIBITIONS, and PUBLICATIONS.

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This unique graphic arts collection of around 130.000 posters from 150 countries, mainly on political-social issues and the performing arts represents the most extensive and diverse privately owned archive of this kind. It forms a comprehensive visual-aesthetic database, tracing and documenting a myriad of historical events and cultural trends over more than half a century worldwide.

I first began collecting Palestine posters when I was a Peace Corps volunteer in Morocco in the mid-1970s. By 1980 I had acquired about 300 Palestine posters. A small grant awarded with the support of the late Dr. Edward Said allowed me to organize them into an educational slideshow to further the “third goal” of the Peace Corps: to promote a better understanding of other peoples on the part of Americans.

Syrian Print Archive is a documentary project that aims to archive the development of all the variable uses of Arabic typography and graphic design elements applied in Syrian prints, Bringing this design heritage back to life and introducing it to youth designers and anyone of interest as an open-source.