Speaker Nada Abdallah

Nada Abdallah is a designer, artist, researcher, and educator based in the UAE. She teaches design at the Academy of Visual Arts, University of the Arts Sharjah, and serves as President of the Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI). Her practice spans typography, visual identity, exhibition design, and research, with a particular interest in Arabic letterforms, cultural memory, and transforming historical visual systems into contemporary forms. She is also the founder and director of the FiftyFifty International Student Traveling Exhibition and the Bilarabic Design Festival.