Speaker Haytham Nawar

Haytham 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. Dr. Nawar currently serves as the director of Diriyah Art Futures at the Ministry of Culture in Riyadh and is also a tenured faculty member at the American University in Cairo. He co-founded Cairotronica, the Cairo International Electronic and New Media Arts Festival. He earned his Ph.D. from the CAiiA Hub at the Planetary Collegium, Plymouth University in the UK. His research interests include art and design history, Arab media arts, and pictographic communication systems, focusing specifically on the Arab world and Africa. Among his notable publications are Language of Tomorrow and A History of Arab Graphic Design.