Personal // For everything I believe in

My love for hosting, combined with actually having a decent roof on my building, led to the creation of a yearly event and me having extra fun with it! That is until the pandemic took over. If you like my portfolio, you will be invited to the world-famous and much-anticipated third edition of “Sat7iye”, Arabic slang for “Evening on the roof.” The second video was designed alongside a friend, Gabriella El Khoury

I am a volunteer EMT at the Red Cross Gemmayze Sector of Beirut (102). For Christmas, I designed a gift for each rescuer of the station. The illustration is that of the façade of our sector, blasted away into rubbles by the Beirut Port Explosion - as we are situated a few kilometers away from it. It serves as a reminder and acts as a temporary feeling of 'home' before our sector gets reconstructed. I decided to print it on a bottle as a functional item to reduce plastic consumption.

During a workshop with Jonathan Barnbrook at the American University of Beirut, we had the chance to create a design as a response to a political and social issue in Lebanon. Working with my classmates: Stephanie Chelala and Lama Barakat, I decided to tackle the complex subject of Solidere. After the civil war, when downtown Beirut was supposed to be reconstructed, houses and small shops were instead sold to big investors, wealthy ex-pats, and political leaders to turn them into luxury boutiques and high-end restaurants that the locals could no longer afford. The area is no longer for its people. One of those businesses is Aishti, a one-stop shop for all high-end fashion brands. The postcards are an ironic collage of old pictures of Beirut with cutouts of the models from the campaign that the one and only Stefan Sagmeister created for Aishti.

Depot Vente is a vintage second hand shop in Beirut. They had a few plain denim shirts in stock, so I decided to illustrate and print on them to make them a little livelier. The idea comes from fighting the “evil eye” or literally translated from the Arabic slang “five in your eyes”.