Congratulations to Yara Khoury Nammour, our 2025 Typographer-in-Residence! Yara’s submission was chosen by our selection committee from an unprecedented amount of applications received this year.

Yara is a designer, educator, and author from Lebanon, assistant professor of graphic design at the American University of Beirut (AUB), leads the Arabic Type Research Unit focusing on practice-based research. She co-organizes the biennial Mashq conference at AUB working to advance Arabic type and typography (mashqconference.org). She authored Nasri Khattar: A Modernist Typotect (Khatt Books, 2014) and previously served as design director for AlMohtaraf design house in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for 20 years. Yara’s expertise spans designing Arabic typefaces, bilingual editorial publications, and graphic identities.