Graduated from Notre Dame University, Lebanon, with a BA in Graphic Design and later acquired an MA with distinction at Middlesex University, London. She is the design director of Al Mohtaraf (www.mohtaraf.com) design house, where she designs and produces major corporate identities for the Arab world, corporate publications, books, magazines and Arabic typefaces. She also teaches graphic design at two major universities in Lebanon, LAU and NDU. Published work in several international design books. Winner of an ISTD premium award and D&AD 2005 in-book award for best designed books. Participated as a jury member in the D&AD awards and is a regular jury member in ISTD’s student assessment scheme.
The jury was impressed by the apparent level of motivation of Theirry Fétiveau to deliver a very complete multi-script font. His font includes both a complete character set for the Latin as well as...
The Khatt Foundation's novel type design competition that aims to add culture-specific fonts to the Arab visual culture, fonts specifically designed to produce modern Mashrebiya architectural screens.
The Khatt Foundation's novel type design competition that aims to add culture-specific fonts to the Arab visual culture, fonts specifically designed to produce modern Mashrebiya architectural screens.
Summer reading and archive on design pioneers from the Arab World. Photo © Edo Smitshuijzen. Design: Huda Smisthuijzen AbiFarès.
Sample Arabic typefaces: by Khajag Apelian (left) and Yara Khoury (right).
Book cover and specimen sheet of the Dara Font (19xx).
Sample text of the SHB font in 3 weights. (Al Mohtaraf, 19xx).
Samples words of Tabboush Font. Work in progress, Yara Khoury 2012.
Samples of the Al-Shams font in use in the newspaper Al-Shams. (Al-Mohtaraf, 19xx)
