With the influx of foreign cultures and economic globalization, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is undergoing a major identity transformation. While many feel the...

The Arabic alphabet is filled with diacritical marks. The removal or addition of any mark to a word may change its entire meaning and pronunciation. Adding a...

Self-portrait posters part of a larger project on investigating identity. Text reads "Muslim". Set in Providence, Rhode Island. 36 x 24 in.

Arabish has become a popular way of communicating among the young generation in the UAE. It was first used as a way for Arabic speakers to communicate when...

Ta3abeer (Ta'abeer) is a collective expression by a group of artists and designers based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on what constitutes the Emirati...

This series of posters represent the rapid transformation of the UAE culture into a hybrid of Emirati and western. A kandora (the UAE traditional costume),...

The United Arab Emirates is a bilingual country. Arabic is the official language, and English is the commercial one. As a result, English & Arabic are seldom...

Transformation was a website designed to reveal the dramatic transformation that the UAE witnessed within a few years. The website shows Google satellite...

With the influx of foreign cultures and economic globalization, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is undergoing a major identity transformation. For that reason, I...