Haytham Nawar

Haytham Nawar is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, and scholar working at the intersection of art, technology, and cultural history. He is the Director of Diriyah Art Futures at the Ministry of Culture in Riyadh and Associate Professor of Design at the American University in Cairo, where he previously chaired the Department of the Arts. He is also the founding director of Cairotronica – Cairo International Electronic and New Media Arts Festival. Nawar holds a PhD from the Planetary Collegium, Plymouth University, an MA in Spatial Design from Zurich University of the Arts, and BFA/MFA degrees from Cairo’s Faculty of Fine Arts. A two-time Fulbright Visiting Scholar, his research focuses on design history, pictographic communication, and visual culture in the Arab region and Africa. His publications include A History of Arab Graphic Design (AUC Press, 2020) and Language of Tomorrow (Intellect Books, 2020).