EDUCATION

• Master of Arts by Research in Typography and Graphic Communication
  University of Reading, class of 2025

• Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design
  American University of Beirut, class of 2015

WORK / EXPERIENCE

• Co-founder, Maamoul Press / 2018–present
  Maamoul Press is a multi-disciplinary collective and small publisher for the creation, curation, and dissemination of art at the intersection of comics, printmaking, and book arts. Runs the press, curates and designs publications and programs.

• Media Design Manager, ACCESS / 2021–2022
  Media Designer, Arab American National Museum (AANM) / 2015–2021
  Responsible for overseeing, developing, designing, and maintaining print and digital visual communications for ACCESS and its three national institutions, the Arab American National Museum, the Center for Arab American Philanthropy, and the National Network for Arab American Communities. Also Exhibitions Committee member and Artist Residency Committee member for the Arab American National Museum.

• Intern, Studio Safar design studio / July–August 2014

• Intern, Polypod design studio / June–July 2013

• Founding member, designer, art editor, Rusted Radishes: Beirut Literary and Art Journal / 2012–2013 

PUBLICATIONS

• Zero Gravity / 2025
  4-page comic
  Mizna 25.2: Futurities

• Sharing the Means of Production / 2024
  8-page essay zine, author + designer
  Book Arts Solidarity Network: MAKEREADY vol. 1

• to walk freely / 2024
  24-page zine, author + designer
  Maamoul Press

GUEST COMMITTEES

• External selections committee, AANM Artists + Residents / 2022–2024
  Arab American National Museum

• Selections committee, Mizna 21.2: The Comix Issue / 2020
  Mizna Journal

SELECT FREELANCE WORK

• Washington and Lee University Museums / 2023–ongoing
  Branding and design for exhibitions and programs

• Arab American National Museum / 2022–ongoing
  Branding and design for exhibitions, publications, festivals and programs

• Sidewalk Detroit / 2022
  Festival poster design and promotional materials

• Allied Media Conference / 2022
  Biennial conference design, promotional materials, merchandise, program book

• Toledo Museum of Art / 2022
  Branding and design for Bestowing Beauty exhibition  

• Arab American Studies Association / 2017, 2022
  Triennial conference program book and signage design

• Halal Metropolis / 2019–2021
  Branding and design for exhibitions and promotional materials

• Mizna / 2019, 2021
  Arab Film Festival poster design and promotional materials

• Hamtramck, USA documentary film / 2020
  Illustrated film poster

• Muslim Group of USA & Canada / 2015–2019
  Annual conference branding, design, promotional materials

• The World Bank / 2018
  Textbook cover design

• Lighthouse Institute & RISE Summit / 2016–2017
  Branding and promotional material design

AWARDS / EXHIBITIONS

• Fall of Freedom exhibition / 2025
  Playground Detroit

• Winner, Comics Guardian Award (Maamoul Press) / 2025
  Mahmoud Kahil Award

• Winner, Jason Polan Award (Maamoul Press) / 2024
  New York Art Book Fair

• Traces online exhibition / 2024
  Field Projects Gallery

• First Prize, Mayda F. M. Design Award / 2021

• Guest curator, Red Bull Arts – Art Mile Editions / 2021
  Online exhibition at Art Mile Detroit

• Emerging Artist Commission, Future Present exhibition / 2020–2021
  Science Gallery Detroit
  Exhibited at 1001 Woodward, Detroit; and Art Lab at MSU Broad Museum, East Lansing; MI

• Maamoul Press showcase (exhibit + guest curator), Halal Metropolis exhibition series /  2019–2021
  Exhibited at various venues across Southeast Michigan

• SXSW Poster Gallery / 2020
  Exhibited online at Fast Company following SXSW cancellation due to Covid-19

• Knight Arts Challenge Award (Maamoul Press) / 2019
  Knight Foundation

• Creators of Culture Grant (Maamoul Press) / 2019
  CultureSource

• Print International exhibition / 2019
  Tŷ Pawb, Wrexham, Wales

• PROOF exhibition / 2019
  Downriver Council for the Arts, Wyandotte, MI

• Winner, 100 Best Arabic Posters / 2018
  Exhibited at various venues across Cairo and the UAE 

WORK COLLECTED BY

• Library of Congress
  Washington D.C.

• The British Library
  London, U.K.

• Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  New York, NY

• Library & Special Collections, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
  Chicago, IL

• Fine Arts Library, Harvard University
  Cambridge, MA

• Frost Library, Amherst College
  Amherst, MA

• Princeton University Library
  Princeton, NJ

• Rare Book Collection, Arab American National Museum
  Dearborn, MI

• University of Michigan Library
  Ann Arbor, MI

• Michigan State University Libraries
  Lansing, MI

• John Hay Library, Brown University
  Providence, RI

• Decker Library, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA)
  Baltimore, MD

• Penn Libraries, University of Pennsylvania
  Philadelphia, PA

• San Diego State University Library
  San Diego, CA

SPEAKING / WORKSHOPS

• Presenter, Arabic Letterpress: History and Revival / 2025
  AADL Printmaking Festival,
  Ann Arbor, MI

• Presenter/workshop lead, Pressing Past: Reviving Arabic Letterpress / 2025
  DIWAN: A Forum for the Arts, Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, MI

• Presenter, History and development of the Būlāq Press type used for printing the King Fuʾād Qurʾān / 2025
  20th Colloquium of the Ernst Herzfeld Society for Studies in Islamic Art and Archaeology, Cairo, Egypt

• Guest reader, Words for Palestine: Mizna Futurities Issue / 2025
  Mizna in partnership with Arab American National Museum / Virtual

• Presenter/workshop lead, Arabic Letterpress / 2024
  Harvard University Fine Arts Library/Houghton Printing Studio, Cambridge, MA

• Organizer/workshop lead, Pop-Up for Palestine / 2024
  Spot Lite Detroit, MI

• Presenter, Arabic Letterpress: History and Revival / 2024
  WSU AIGA, Detroit, MI

• Presenter/workshop lead, Arabic Letterpress / 2023
  Mizna+RAWIfest, Minneapolis, MN

• Panelist, Working with Small Press Publishers / 2023
  Ann Arbor Comic Arts Festival: Small+Indie Press, MI

• Organizer/moderator, Rawand Issa & Malaka Gharib in Conversation: Graphic Memoir & Navigating Change / 2023
  Ann Arbor District Library / Virtual

• Panelist, Small Press Publishing Today / 2022
  Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo (MICE), Boston, MA

• Panelist/presenter, Building Artistic Futures / 2022
  Writing Fellows, Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, MI

• Workshop lead, Drawing for Writers / 2022
  Room Project, Detroit, MI

• Panelist/presenter, Maamoul Press in Conversation / 2021
  Bon-gah Art Book Fair / Virtual

• Organizer/moderator, Maamoul Press presents: History, Memory & Storytelling / 2021
  Multicultural Community Center, UC Berkeley / Virtual

• Workshop lead, Zine-Makers Meetup / 2020
  Allied Media Conference, Detroit, MI / Virtual

• Panelist, Muslim Fandom: Geeks, Nerds, Cosplayers & Creators / 2019
  New York Comic Con, NY

• Workshop lead, Comics for All: Visual Storytelling As Resistance / 2019
  re:publica Detroit, MI

• Workshop lead, Coptic Book-Binding / 2019
  Book + Print Fest, Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, MI

• Instructor, Dearborn Comics Workshop / 2019
  8-week intensive workshop
  City Hall Artspace Lofts, Dearborn, MI

• Panelist, The Immigrant Experience and the Roots of the Comic Art Form / 2018
  Green Brain Comics, Dearborn, MI

• Presenter, Design in Comics / 2017
  AANM, Dearborn, MI

• Moderator, Arab American Women in Comics / 2015
  Comique Con, Dearborn, MI