Journal Safar #4

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: Nostalgia

Issue #2 of Journal Safar is on Nostalgia. Highlights include Rupaul interviewed by Paul Holdengräber on nostalgia and cultural belonging in Queer world-making, the hopeless romantics of Beirut's architecture heritage, and ghost making images of Palestine from the National Geographic Archive. Works responding to memory, resistance, the ephemeral, and the iconic are throughout. 

Beirut, Lebanon; 27x21cm; 208 pages;; 2019; Bilingual in English and Arabic, Annually