Journal Safar #5

Journal Safar is bilingual design and visual culture journal published in Beirut. The name Safar is Arabic for travel, and it refers to notions of communication, especially across disciplinal, cultural, and linguistic boundaries. Safar was created to remedy the scarcity of critical writings on design in the global south, and to acknowledge designers as active agents of cultural production.

Inside this issue: Migrations

Issue #5 of Journal Safar is on Migrations. Highlights include the design politics of the passport, the meme in the age of viral replicability, and artists Sophia Al-Maria and Yumna Marwan on kin, exile, Etel Adnan, and the "Arab Apocalypse." Works responding to belonging, labour, solidarity, fear, and gender are throughout. 

Beirut, Lebanon; 27x21cm; 208 pages, 2020, Bilingual in English and Arabic, Annually