Dr. Yasmine Nachabe Taan on Arab Design Education

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Dr. Yasmine Nachabe Taan on Arab Design Education

While design history is well-established in the West, the Arab region lacks a collective understanding of the social, anthropological, psychological and social contexts that influenced Arab art and design. As a design historian and curator, LAU Associate Professor and Director of the Institute of Art in the Arab World (IAAW) Yasmine Nachabe Taan (BA ’92) found her calling in attempting to set this right.For more than a decade, she has examined, …