Join us as we interview researcher Zeina Maasri on our afikra Conversations series.
Date: Thursday, January 6
Time: 12PM NYC | 5PM London | 7PM Beirut | 9PM Abu Dhabi
Hosted By: Mikey Muhanna (afikra)
Bio: Zeina Maasri (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Brighton, United Kingdom. Before taking up her post at Brighton, she was both an independent graphic designer and an academic at the American University of Beirut (1999 – 2016) in Lebanon. She works across the fields of visual and cultural politics and design history with a particular attention on Lebanon and the Arab world. She is the author of Cosmopolitan Radicalism: The Visual Politics of Beirut’s Global Sixties (Cambridge University Press 2020); Off the Wall: Political Posters of the Lebanese Civil War (IB Tauris 2009) and curator of related travelling exhibitions and online archival resources (www.signsofconflict.org). Maasri has also co-edited (with Karl Bassil, Akram Zaatari, and Walid Raad) Mapping Sitting: On Portraiture and Photography (2002). She is working on a new co-edited volume, Transnational Solidarity: Decentring the Sixties, forthcoming with Manchester University Press in 2022.
This event is being videotaped for subsequent broadcast on the library website and other media. The audience is encouraged to offer comments and raise questions during the formal question and answer period, but please be advised that your voice and image may be recorded and later broadcast as part of this event. By participating in the question and answer period you are consenting to the possible reproduction and transmission of your remarks.