Homescreen: Reflections

Artist, Designer, Calligrapher, Typographer, Researcher, and Assistant Professor of Visual Communication at the University of the Arts Sharjah. Founder of the FiftyFifty Traveling Lettering Exhibition and the Bilarabic Design Festival, and President of ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale). She holds a BS in Visual Communication from the American University of Sharjah and an MFA from the Lebanese University. Received several awards in typography, design, and photography. She has served as a juror for various competitions, including the Type Directors Club (TDC), and her work has been exhibited in Lebanon, UAE, Greece, Korea, Egypt, KSA, the USA, and others. Her work and research focus on Arabic calligraphy, typography and prehistoric motif design.

Tom Mullaney is a historian, teacher, curator, archivist, and songwriter. Author of How We Disappear and The Chinese Typewriter, among 5 other books, Mullaney is Professor of History at Stanford University, a Guggenheim Fellow, former Kluge Chair at the Library of Congress, and Director of Stanford’s Science, Technology, and Society Program. He is also the UNESCO Chair in Digital Futures at Stanford, and Director of SILICON, a Stanford Presidential Initiative advancing endangered, at-risk, and digitally disadvantaged languages worldwide.