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NATIONALITY

British Lebanese

EDUCATION

MASTER’S IN PERFORMANCE DESIGN & PRACTICE.

Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, Sep. 2009 - Sept.2010. A design program involving tradition and change in contemporary performance and experimental theatre practice, set design, script, space, and installations. Several projects: covering the relationship between body-mind and space. Thesis titled “Found Library” chance encountering: producing city-installations. Questioning if chance exists and if it does, what roles can it pursue in creativity.

BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS GRAPHIC DESIGN.

American University of Beirut, Sept. 2005 - June 2009. A four year design program with areas of emphasis in graphic & communication design, publications, typography, interactive and web design. Thesis project: When the sense of sight is threatened, a designer must create a way to design using other senses. Exploring the means of designing without sight.

" I advocate that students should take lead in their educational process; for that, I invite them to be critical thinkers of their own work process and creative end results. To be both the lawyer and the judge of one’s work is at the heart of learning and progressing – at the heart of my teaching philosophy. Once a solid solution is reached and supported from all aspects and perspectives, theoretically and practically – a vision is formed.

My teaching pedagogy is a continuum that equips students with the concepts and skills for a lifelong learning. The student is not a student forever – he or she will leave the academics and enter the active workforce, as a contributing entity of the community. Keeping in mind the later and as an instructor, I believe this is the key to lead learners to self-confidence and development; a necessary condition to become leaders."