Three Tired Tigers Exhibition&nbsp;at Jameel Art Foundation

Three Tired Tigers, Jameel Arts Centre. Photography by Daniella Baptista. Courtesy of Art Jameel (35)2 copy.webp

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The Cairo Reading Club in&nbsp;Visual Culture — 26 Cohort

The Cairo Reading Club on Visual Culture is a new program initiated by the Arabic Design Archive and led by our founder Moe Elhossieny who is partnering with Seham Shahin, an archivist and writer working at the intersections of alternative and counter-archival practices, sound, and cinema. The club is dedicated to collective reading, critical discussion, and knowledge production around Arab and Global South visual cultures.

Over the duration of a year-long program, monthly sessions will take place. This years cohort have been selected through a rigiros interview process and was aimed to gather together a diverse group of people from writers, designers, researchers, and cultural practitioners to engage with texts on design, image-making, archives, modernity, colonialism, and visual politics. 

The project conceives of reading as a shared cultural practice: a way to slow down, debate, translate, question, and build new frameworks for thinking about visual culture from the region and beyond.

2026 Cohort

The Cairo Reading Club is hosted by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/megawra.bec/?hl=en">Megawra</a> and supported by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/bias_ame/?hl=en">Bias-ame</a>

The Cairo Reading Club in Visual Culture - 2026

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At the start of 2026, we continue to work towards expanding access to and visibility for seminal design work. We are thrilled to announce a new ally joining the Archival Alliances movement: The Marc Rudin – Jihad Mansour Collection. 

Archival Alliances is a global movement initiated by the Arabic Design Archive, dedicated to reuniting dispersed histories of Arab and Arab-connected art and design through collaboration with archives, institutions, collectors, and rights holders across the world. Today, the movement brings together allies such as:

The addition of the Marc Rudin collection is a strong affirmation of the solidarity and shared responsibility that unites this growing network. The Marc Rudin – Jihad Mansour collection documents a remarkable body of politically engaged graphic work produced in exile between Beirut and Damascus from 1979 to 1991, in solidarity with the Palestinian resistance. These posters stand as both historical documents and enduring examples of design as a tool for anti-racism, internationalism, and visual resistance. We extend our deep thanks to Studio Eusebio for their digitization efforts of this important archive, and our sincere gratitude to Mrs. Eleonora Zimmermann Rudin for her trust, generosity, and stewardship of Marc Rudin’s legacy. 

An introduction to Mrs. Eleonora was facilitated by Engy Aly, making this collaboration possible. We would also like to commend the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHDK) for caring for these posters. The Marc Rudin – Jihad Mansour Collection is now accessible on the Arabic Design Archive website.

A New Ally in the Archival Alliances Movement: Marc Rudin Archive

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The initiative was launched in 2023 and since then, we were able to negotiate a re(host) of the collections of important institutions such as

We are currently in the process of negotiating with more institutions to expand our network of alliances. If you belong to an institution that has an Arabic graphic design related collection and would like to join the Archival Alliances movement&nbsp;

✎&nbsp;<a href="mailto:moe@arabicdesignarchive.com">moe@arabicdesignarchive.com</a>

A New Ally in the Archival Alliances Movement: CentreCentre Publishing

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we are thrilled to announce the launch of the Archival Alliances (AA) movement. The AA started as a co-curated exhibition with <a href="https://blogs.library.mcgill.ca/islamicstudieslibrary/exhibit-archival-alliance-discovering-arabic-book-covers/">McGill Islamic Studies Library</a> with the same name and soon after we have decided to expand it to become a movement. Now, AA is a global alliance initiated by the Arabic Design Archive with the aim to repatriate the scattered and dispersed history of Arab art and design. Through alliances with all archives in the East and West, collectors, museums, and heirs, we will aim to engage in negotiations with these institutions and secure a (re)host of the digital copies of Graphic Design works that initially came from the SWANA region during the 20th century and were moved to different parts of the world during colonial and modern times.

The Archival Alliances Movement

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While the global pandemic placed constraints on the movement of people, it provided an opportunity to intensify the flow of ideas. These constraints allowed for new ways of collaborations to develop. Collaborations that are not limited by geography or physical proximity. The&nbsp;Archival Alliance: Discovering Arabic Book Covers&nbsp;is one such example that creative expressions can be born out of shared challenges that forge new connections.

The Arabic Design Archive (ADA) and McGill University’s Islamic Studies Library (ISL) engaged in a year long collaboration producing this exhibition. The ISL offered a portion of its rich Arabic books collection to enhance and promote the work of the ADA. Over the past few years, the ADA has been working on the digitization and preservation of Arab graphic history drawn from the mid-1930s to mid-1990s. One of the objectives is to create a digital archive for both inspirational and scholarly purposes. The ADA has benefited from various crowdsourcing opportunities, such as the contributions from the Islamic Studies Library’s immense holdings of Arabic books.

The&nbsp;Archival Alliance: Discovering Arabic Book Covers&nbsp;exhibition seeks to highlight and broaden the concept of the histories of graphic design beyond Western contributions to present the wealth of design work produced in the Arab World. Including both a physical display and a touch table experience, the exhibit will take visitors through the history of Arabic books covers design between 1970 and 2000. Displayed from September 15th&nbsp;to November 15th, 2022, this exhibition is co-curated by the Islamic Studies Library and the Arabic Design Archive.

Archival Alliance: Discovering Arabic Book Cover Design Exhibition - ADA X McGill

Our ADA manifesto has been featured in <a href="https://www.instagram.com/yasmine.nbl/">Yasmine Nabil's</a> thesis project. Graphisme du monde arabe : la quête d’une identité (Graphic design in the Arab world: the quest of an identity) — Genève.&nbsp;

Graphisme du monde arabe : la quête d’une identité (Graphic design in the Arab world: the quest of an identity) is a research conducted as part of Yasmine Nabile's bachelor’s degree project. It focuses on the issue of identity, tradition and modernity, as well as cultural heritage in the MENA region and what a possible “Arab” style or aesthetic – although the region is very diverse – would look like? 

This research and the desire to get rid of Western narratives led to the creation of the first issue of A—Z, Graphic design &amp; typography in Arabic speaking countries which is the result of my diploma project. The aim of this publication is to offer a different understanding of graphic design from the Arabic speaking region that is so little represented and often misunderstood or caricatured.

Three Tired Tigers Exhibition at Jameel Art Foundation

Three Tired Tigers Exhibition at Jameel Art Foundation

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