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Political Posters of the Lebanese Civil War

Off the Wall

Zeina Maasri

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Graphic Novels, Comic Books, Illustrated Books, and Manga

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Palestine

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Psychology

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Religion and Spirituality

Business and Finance

Music

Political, Cultural, and Social History

Dr. Zeina Maasri is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities and the Course Leader of the interdisciplinary BA degree War and Conflict. She convenes the postgraduate module ‘Global Issues in Graphic Design’ on the MA History of Design and Material Culture and coordinates the undergraduate option pathway Globalisation, History and Identity. Before taking up her post at Brighton, Maasri was both a successful graphic designer and an academic at the American University of Beirut (1999 – 2016) in Lebanon. She relocated to the UK to undertake a fully-funded PhD degree at the University of Brighton (2013–2016). Her recent monograph, Cosmopolitan Radicalism: The Visual Politics of Beirut’s Global Sixties (Cambridge University Press 2020), is the co-winner of the 2021 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize. Among other publications, she is the author of Off the Wall: Political Posters of the Lebanese Civil War (IB Tauris 2009) and curator of related travelling exhibitions and online archival resources (www.signsofconflict.org). She is currently co-editing a volume (with Cathy Bergin and Francesca Burke), Transnational Solidarity: Anticolonialism in the Global Sixties, forthcoming with Manchester University Press in 2022. Maasri is an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Maasri's earlier art projects and publications include: Mapping Sitting: On Portraiture and Photography co-edited with Karl Bassil, Akram Zaatari and Walid Raad (2002) and Greetings from Beirut co-edited with Anja Lutz (2003). She was art director and member of the editorial board of Zawaya, a periodical on emerging cultural production in the Arab World (Beirut 2001–2007). As a graphic designer, she has worked in publication design and engaged in activist projects. Her creative practice has been widely recognized, published and exhibited in different international venues: for example, she was awarded “Un des plus beaux Livres Suisses 2005” ) for the design of Territoire Méditerranée, with Mathieu Christe (Geneva 2004).

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