Speaker Najla Badran

Najla Badran is a typeface designer and researcher from Egypt. Badran’s interest in typography led to her constant search for knowledge about type design. This drove Badran to pursue a master’s in typeface design from the University of Reading in 2014, which was funded by the Monotype Scholarship. Badran taught at the German University in Cairo from 2016 to 2017, and is currently teaching at the American University in Cairo. Badran is pursuing her PhD in diacritics in the Arabic scripts and typography at the University of Reading.