E24: Zeina Maasri

Episode 24 is a conversation with designer, historian, and educator Zeina Maasri on the visual and cultural politics of the Arab world and in particular on her most recent project " Decolonising the Page: The Visual Politics and Poetics of Postcolonial Arabic Publications ," an online exhibition showcasing 250 books. Zeina is a graphic designer from Lebanon who became a teacher, and then a historian, driven by a growing unease with the narrow frameworks through which design history is usually taught. Both her published books, Off the Wall (Bloomsburry, 2009) and Cosmopolitan Radicalism (Cambridge University Press, 2020) are efforts into documenting visual culture that had been largely overlooked. "Decolonising the Page: The Visual Politics and Poetics of Postcolonial Arabic Publications" is the result of years of research and an extraordinary contribution to graphic design history. It's a project that asks us to rethink where design history lives, who gets recorded, and what happens when we take the archive seriously as a political space. - O episódio 24 é uma conversa com a designer, historiadora e educadora Zeina Maasri sobre a política visual e cultural do mundo árabe e, em particular, sobre o seu mais recente projeto, " Decolonising the Page: The Visual Politics and Poetics of Postcolonial Arabic Publications ", uma exposição online que apresenta 250 livros. Zeina formou-se em design de comunicação no Líbano onde se tornou professora e, mais tarde, historiadora, impulsionada por um crescente desconforto com as estruturas restritas através das quais a história do design é geralmente ensinada. Os seus dois livros publicados, "Off the Wall" (2009) e "Cosmopolitan Radicalism" (2020), são esforços para documentar a cultura visual que tinha sido amplamente negligenciada. "Decolonising the Page: The Visual Politics and Poetics of Postcolonial Arabic Publications" é o resultado de anos de investigação e de um contributo extraordinário para a história do design gráfico. É um projeto que nos convida a repensar onde reside a história do design, quem fica registado e o que acontece quando levamos o arquivo a sério como espaço político.

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E24: Zeina Maasri is an episode from Errata: uma revisão feminista à história do design gráfico português / a feminist amendment to graphic design history by Errata.

This episode is 53:47 long.

This episode was published on Feb 23, 2026.

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