Yasmine Nachabe Taan is Associate Professor of Art and Design History and the director of the Institute of Art in the Arab World at the Lebanese American University in Beirut.
Her interdisciplinary research cuts across the fields of visual culture, gender politics, photography and design history with a focus on the Middle East and North Africa.
She is currently lead researcher in a large project funded by AFAC, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Khatt Foundation. The project entitled, Revealing Recording Reflecting, consists of research on generations of women graphic designers from Southwest Asia and North Africa, and the diaspora. In 2021, she received the 10×10 Photobooks grant to studyCatherine Leroy’s photographic practice in Beirut. In 2020, she received the Design History Society Research Grant for her research on Mouna Bassili Sehnaoui: Imagining Beirut from the 1960s till the 1990s (forthcoming). She is the author of Reading Marie al-Khazen’s Photographs (2020), Saloua Raouda Choucair: Modern Arab Design (2019), Abdulkader Arnaout: Designing as Visual Poetry (2017), and Hilmi el-Tuni, Evoking Popular Arab Culture (2014). Nachabe Taan is on the advisory board for the Design & Culture journal and a Design History Society Trustee.