LAU and BILKENT UNIVERSITY

On the editorial advisory board, Design and Culture
On the board of trustees, KHATT FOUNDATION
On the board of trustees, DESIGN HISTORY SOCIETY

1. Books
2023 Mouna Bassili Sehnaoui: The First Lebanese Graphic Designer to Brand her Nation, KHATT Books,
Amsterdam.
The Design History Society Grant was received to partially fund the production of the book on
Mouna Bassili Sehnaoui.
https://www.designhistorysociety.org/blog/view/report-dhs-strategic-research-grant-by-yasminetaan
2. 2021 Fashioning the Modern Middle East: Gender, Body, and Nation (co-edited with Reina Lewis)
Bloomsbury, London.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/fashioning-the-modern-middle-east-9781350135222/
This book is reviewed in the The Journal of Dress History. Volume 5, Issue 5, Late Autumn 2021, pp. 124-7.
2020 Marie al-Khazen’s Photographs: Gender, Photography, Mandate Lebanon,
Bloomsbury, London.
https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/reading-marie-al-khazens-photographs-genderphotography-
mandate-lebanon/acknowledgments?from=search
2019 Saloua Raouda Choucair: Modern Arab Design: An Exploration of Abstraction Across
Materials and Functions, KHATT Books, Amsterdam.
https://www.khtt.net/en/page/30116/saloua-raouda-choucair-modern-arab-design-an-exploration-of
2017 Abdulkader Arnaout: Designing as Visual Poetry, KHATT Books, Amsterdam.
https://www.khattbooks.com/shop/abdulkader-arnaout-designing-as-visual-poetry/
This book is reviewed in the Journal of Design History “Abdulkader Arnaout: Designing as Visual
Poetry” L. Balaa, review of “Abdulkader Arnaout: Designing as Visual Poetry” book, Journal of Design
History, Volume 33, Issue 2, May 2020, pp. 187–9, https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epaa006
The Design History Society Grant was received to partially fund the production of the book on
Abdulkader Arnaout.
2014 Hilmi el-Tuni, Evoking Popular Arab Culture, KHATT Books, Amsterdam.
https://www.khtt.net/en/page/25126/hilmi-al-tuni-evoking-popular-arab-culture
2. Book Chapters
2025 “Sufism and Science in Saloua Raouda Choucair’s Design Work,” in Women Graphic Designers:
Rebalancing the Canon, edited by Elizabeth Resnick, Bloomsbury.
2024 “The Bad Girls Are the Best!” in Revealing • Relating • Recording, Women Designers from Southwest
Asia to North Africa, edited by Huda AbiFares Smithuijzen, Khatt Books with the support of AFAC,
ACSS, and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
2022 “Disaster seen by Three Female Contemporary Lebanese Artists,” in Women’s War Stories: The
Lebanese Civil War as Lived by Women, in a multidisciplinary volume of essays edited by Michelle
Hartman and Malek Abisaab and published by Syracuse University Press.
2022 “Negotiating an Entry to Modernity through Marie al-Khazen’s Photographs (1920-1930),” in Gorman,
A., & S. Irving, Cultural Entanglement in the Pre-Independence Arab World Arts, Thought and
Literature, I.B. Tauris.
2021 “Mapping Modern Bodies in the Middle East: Introduction,” in Fashioning the Modern Middle East:
Gender, Body, and Nation (co-authored with Reina Lewis), Bloomsbury, London, pp. 1-18.
3. 2021 “The Arab Garçonne: Being Simultaneously Modern and Arab in 1920s and 1930s Palestine, Lebanon,
and Egypt,” in Fashioning the Modern Middle East: Gender, Body, and Nation, Bloomsbury, London,
pp. 136-153.
2018 “The July 2006 War in Lebanon, Mazen Kerbaj imaging the unimaginable,” in Cultures of War in
Graphic Novels Violence, Trauma, and Memory, Eds. Tatiana Prorokova et. al. New Jersey: Rutgers
University Press, pp. 189-204.
https://www.degruyter.com/rutgers/view/book/9780813590998/10.36019/9780813590998-012.xml
3. Papers published in peer-reviewed journals
2025 “Lena Merhej’s Comics and the Shattering of Taboos around Sexuality and Shame” in Journal of
Middle East Women’s Studies Special Issue edited by Sherine Hamdy.
2024 “Towards a ‘Glocal’ Teaching of the History of Graphic Design,” Design and Culture.
2023 “The image as a site of transgression: the case of Beirut counter-visuality since October 2019,” Social
Movement Studies, DOI: 10.1080/14742837.2023.2269105
2020 “Reversing the Domestic Gaze: Chaza Charafeddine’s Maidames Exhibition in Beirut” in Journal of
Middle East Women Studies, JMEWS, Issue 16.1, pp. 87-93.
2018 “Performing Masculinity during Mandate Lebanon in Marie al-Khazen’s photographs,” Masculinities
Journal, issue 9-10, Feb. Aug. 2018, pp. 97-128.
2018 “Performing different lives in Chaza Charafeddine’s series of portraits,” REVELAR, volume 3(2018),
pp. 95-115.
2012 “A Refracted Gaze” in Altre Modernità, 8(2012), p. 167-173
https://doi.org/10.13130/2035-7680/2582
2011 “An Alternative Representation of Femininity in 1920s Lebanon: Through the Mise-en-Abîme of a
Masculine Space” in New Middle Eastern Studies Journal, 1(2011)
https://doi.org/10.29311/nmes.v1i0.2605
4. Edited Journal
2013 Al-Raida Journal: Women and Photography, No. 141-142, Spring/Summer
http://www.alraidajournal.com/index.php/ALRJ/article/view/4

2023 Received the President Intramural Research Fund for a research on The Role of Art Education in
Building a Nation: taking the art program at the Beirut College for Women as a case study (1950-
1990).
2023 Design History Society Research grant to partially fund the study and publication on Mouna Bassili
Sehnaoui
https://www.designhistorysociety.org/blog/view/report-dhs-strategic-research-grant-by-yasmine-taan
2021 Recipient of the 10 x10 Grant to research Catherine Leroy and Tony Clifton’s photobook, God Cried
https://10x10photobooks.org/
2017 Design History Society Research grant to partially fund the study and publication of
Abdulkader Arnaout: Designing as Visual Poetry.
2009-2012 Fonds de recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC), Quebec.