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Satellite imagery to locate letters within the shapes.

Traced by hand to retain raw architectural character.

Cleaned and standardized vector paths inside Illustrator.

Developed on Glyphs,

Producing a complete, workable font.

Tokhteet Lebanonتخطيط لبنان

An Arabic typeface designed to archive a geography under constant threat of modification or erasure.

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جربني
Tokhteet Lebanonتخطيط لبنان

An Arabic typeface designed to archive a geography under constant threat of modification or erasure.

Glyph setمجموعة الأحرف
Type to try the typefaceاكتب هنا لتجربة الخط
جربني
Tokhteet Lebanonتخطيط لبنان

An Arabic typeface designed to archive a geography under constant threat of modification or erasure.

Glyph setمجموعة الأحرف
Type to try the typefaceاكتب هنا لتجربة الخط
جربني
Tokhteet Lebanonتخطيط لبنان

An Arabic typeface designed to archive a geography under constant threat of modification or erasure.

Glyph setمجموعة الأحرف
Type to try the typefaceاكتب هنا لتجربة الخط
جربني
typeface
+ research
+ documentation
+ design

Tokhteet Lebanon: Arabic Typeface rejecting erasure

A heavily manual exercise of documenting Lebanon through hand-traced satellite images, engraving its topography, political geography, sectarianism, urbanism, its valleys and lakes, its ridges and highways.

Each letter corresponding to a village or city, distributed equitably across all nine governorates with deep consideration for sect, faith, ethnicity, geographical spacing, refugee communities, historical importance, resistance importance, and erasure importance.

The pangram was created by Dr. Samar Asso, an Arabic language expert, a pedagogue, a poet, a writer, a friend.

Intended for public use as a permanent public document.

2026
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mixed media
+ found objects
+ coptic stitch

AI Can’t Find Me Here

A sensory book (zine) reminiscent of childhood sensory books that I loved. In the age of artificial intelligence and optimization and productivity and mental overwhelm and digital noise, I look to found objects and create with my hands.

2026
video

First Recorded Dabkeh (1957) x Cicada, Sega Bodega (2021)

The first ever (known) documentation of ‘dabkeh’, a 1957 Lebanese film by Georges Nasser's “Ila Ayn” (Where To). Chopped up and played with on top of Sega Bodega's Cicada.

2026
family photographs
+ visual art

Baba and the Stuff

In this series I explored the mental static of loss, of how time and our grieving brain drape certain memories with “stuff”, distorting, erasing, amplifying. Memory here becomes a way to shape what remains, or what I’d like to remain. 

2025
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comic
+ illustration

The Invention of a Fight

Absurdist comic I worked on, exploring future medieval, illuminated manuscripts, and looney tunes-esque brawls.

2026
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research
+ design

Al rad al maqboul | الرد المقبول

An ongoing research project exploring social rituals and the unspoken rules of response in Arab culture. The idea began from my own shaky hold on the language, and the clunky wikis I turned to at social gatherings. What do I say at my friend’s wedding? What should I say at my cousin’s birthday? What phrase to use at a funeral? The resulting work acts as guide on how to move through social moments with these inherited scripts we rarely question that still live in our mouths.

2025

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