Zeina Maasri is an Associate Professor of Graphic Design at the American University of Beirut and a practicing graphic designer. She has been conducting research since 2004 on the political posters of Lebanon’s civil war. She is the author of Off the Wall: Political Posters of the Lebanese Civil War, (London: I.B.Tauris, 2009) and curator of related traveling exhibition titled “Signs of Conflict”.
Her broader areas of teaching and research include: visual culture, graphic design history in the Arab world, and socially / politically engaged forms of design practices.
Zeina Maasri edited and art directed, with Anja Lutz, Greetings From Beirut (Shift! Berlin 2003). She also co-edited and designed Mapping Sitting: On Portraiture and Photography (Arab Image Foundation and Mind the Gap. Beirut. 2002).
She was awarded “Un des plus beaux Livres Suisses 2005” (Most beautiful Swiss Books 2005) for the design of Territoire Méditerranée, with Mathieu Christe (ProHelvetia Fondation Suisse pour la Culture. Geneva. Labor et Fides 2004). 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).
