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Book SynopsisHaytham Nawar is a practicing artist, designer, and scholar in the fields of art and design. Over the past two decades, he has built a professional and academic career while simultaneously fulfilling various roles. He currently serves as Director of Diriyah Art Futures at the Ministry of Culture in Riyadh and a tenured faculty member at the American University in Cairo. Among his notable publications are Language of Tomorrow: Towards a Multicultural Visual Communication System in a Post-Human Era (Bristol: Intellect Book, 2020) and A History of Arab Graphic Design (The American University in Cairo Press, 2020). Ala Younis is an artist focusing on research, film, and publishing projects. She worked as co-Head of Berlinale's Forum Expanded (2021-2024), co-Artistic Director of Singapore Biennale (2022), Artistic Director of the A cademy of the Arts of the World (202325), and research scholar at al Mawrid Arab Center for the Study of Art at NYU Abu Dhabi. S he is also co-founder of Kayfa ta initiative, which researches and publishes on and through independent endeavors. Among her editorial works, On the Book of Sceneries (Hatje Cantz, 2022), How to maneuver: Shapeshifting texts and other publishing tactics (Kayfa ta, 2020), and Time Is Out Of Joint (Sharjah Art Foundation, 2016) .
