Khatt Chronicles: Stories on Design from the Arab World
Episodes
Khatt Chronicles in Conversation with Wael Morcos
01 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès interviews American-Lebanese designer Wael Morcos. They start by talking about his educational journey in graphic design ...
Khatt Chronicles in Conversation with Sarah Saroufim
20 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Yasmine Nachabe Taan interviews American-Lebanese illustrator and designer Sarah Saroufim. They start the conversation by taking us through her educat...
Khatt Chronicles in Conversation with Golnaz Fathi
23 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès interviews Iranian visual artist Golnaz Fathi, who starts by sharing her educational journey from her initial training as ...
Khatt Chronicles in Conversation with Hanane Kai
27 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Yasmine Nachabe Taan interviews Lebanese illustrator Hanane Kai who shares her journey from studying and working as a graphic designer to the moment s...
Khatt Chronicles in Conversation with Golnar Adili
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès interviews Iranian-American visual artist Golnar Adili on her journey from architecture to teaching and practicing visual ...
Khatt Chronicles in Conversation with Aude Abou Nasr
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Yasmine Nachabe Taan interviews Beirut-based, French-Lebanese illustrator Aude Abou Nasr. They discuss Aude's educational and professional journey fro...
Khatt Chronicles in Conversation with Ghazal Foroutan
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Roshanak Keyghobadi interviews Iranian California-based graphic designer and illustrator Ghazal Foroutan. They discuss Ghazal's journey as a designer,...
Khatt Chronicles in Conversation with Bahia Shehab
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Yara Khoury Nammour interviews Cairo-based Lebanese designer and visual artist Bahia Shehab. They discuss Shehab's motivation and journey as a designe...
Khatt Chronicles in Conversation with Dima Nachawi
08 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Yasmine Nachabe Taan interviews Beirut-based Syrian visual storyteller and illustrator Dima Nachawi. They discuss her professional journey, education,...
Khatt Chronicles in Conversation with Kinda Ghannoum
11 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès interviews Brussels-based, Syrian-Polish designer Kinda Ghannoum. They discuss her journey into the field of design, throu...
Khatt Chronicles in Conversation with Zeynab Izadyar
13 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Roshanak Keyghobadi interviews New York-based Iranian designer Zeynab Izadyar. They discuss her journey into the field of design and textile design; b...
Khatt Chronicles in Conversation With Samar Maakaroun
16 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Yara Khoury Nammour interviews London-based Lebanese designer Samar Maakaroun. They discuss at length her journey into the field of branding and lette...
Khatt Chronicles Hosts Introducing Season 4
18 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès moderates a conversation between the hosts of season 4 of @khatt_chronicles. The discussion addressed the three main theme...
Khatt Chronicles in Conversation With Sahar Afshar
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Khatt Chronicles, Roshanak Keyghobadi interviews UK-based Iranian type designer and researcher Sahar Afshar. They discuss Sahar's j...
Khatt Chronicles in Conversation With Walid Bouchouchi
07 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Khatt Chronicles, Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès interviews France-based Algerian graphic and designer Walid Bouchouchi. They discuss ...
Khatt Chronicles in Conversation With Sina Fakour
10 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Khatt Chronicles, Yara Khoury Nammour interviews France-based Iranian educator and independent type designer Sina Fakour. They disc...
Khatt Chronicles in Conversation With Mitra Shasavand
06 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Khatt Chronicles, Roshanak Keyghobadi interviews Iranian designer Mitra Shahsavand, design director and founder of the Mitra Shahsa...
Khatt Chronicles in Conversation With Aria Kasaei
08 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Khatt Chronicles, Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès interviews Iranian designer Aria Kasaei, who co-founded Studio Kargah with his classm...
Khatt Chronicles in Conversation With Sahar Khraibani
11 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Khatt Chronicles, Yasmine Nachabe Taan interviews Lebanese design writer and critic, Sahar Khraibani. They discuss her journey into...
Khatt Chronicles in Conversation With Amir Mahdi Moslehi
13 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Khatt Chronicles, Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès interviews Iranian type designer and researcher Amir Mahdi Moslehi. They discuss his ...
Khatt Chronicles in Conversation With Nisrine Sarkis
16 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Yara Khoury Nammour interviews Beirut-based Lebanese designer Nisrine Sarkis. They discuss her journey into the world of branding and lettering. Focus...
Khatt Chronicles in Conversation With Nora Zeid
12 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
***** About Khatt Chronicles *****Khatt Chronicles podcast features remarkable designers, illustrators, and researchers from the Arab World. We host e...
Khatt Chronicles in Conversation With the Authors of Khatt Books' Arabic Design Library Series
14 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The four enter into a conversation that goes beyond describing the content of their books, addressing the challenges of undertaking design in a geogra...
Khatt Chronicles in Conversation With Wissam Shawkat
17 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
They zoomed in on some of Wissam's unique projects, from his calligraphic script Al-Wissam to his Calligraforms artworks and logotype designs. They ex...
Khatt Chronicles Hosts Introducing Season 3
12 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Khatt Chronicles podcast is back in a third season! Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès moderates a conversation between the hosts of Season 3. The discus...
Khatt Chronicles in Conversation With Lara Balaa
08 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Yara Khoury Nammour interviews Lara Balaa, Lebanese editorial designer and PhD Candidate at Rutgers School of Communication and Information. They disc...
Khatt Chronicles in Conversation With Lara Assouad
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès interviews Dubai-based Lebanese graphic and type designer @laraassouad. Together they discuss her journey into type design...
Khatt Chronicles in Conversation With Rana Salam
05 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Yasmine Nachabe Taan interviews Beirut-born Lebanese graphic designer @RanaSalam, "Queen of Arab Pop", founder of Rana Salam Studio in Beirut, Lebanon...
Khatt Chronicles in Conversation With Mobius Studio
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès interviews UAE-based design studio MOBIUS and its founders, graphic designers Hala Al-Ani, Hadeyeh Badri and Riem Hassan. ...
Khatt Chronicles in Conversation With Mohammed Shennawy
26 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Yasmine Nachabe Taan interviews Egyptian comics artist and designer Mohamed Shennawy – co-founder of TokTok comics magazine and founder of Al-Fann A...
Khatt Chronicles in Conversation With Kristyan Sarkis
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès interviews Lebanese type designer Kristyan Sarkis and founder of TPTQ Arabic font foundry in Amsterdam. Kristyan shares hi...
Khatt Chronicles in Conversation With Lina Hakim
31 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Yasmine Nachabe Taan interviews Lebanese-British researcher and designer Lina Hakim about her professional journey into research on material culture, ...
Khatt Chronicles in Conversation With Eyen Studio
27 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès interviews Jordanian Eyen graphic design studio’s founders and designers Omar Al-Zo’bi and Yousef Abedrabbo. In this ...
Khatt Chronicles in Conversation With Maya Saikali
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Yara Khoury Nammour interviews Lebanese graphic designer and educator Maya Saikali about how she marries her interest in socially engaged practice and...
Khatt Chronicles in Conversation With Bahij Jaroudi
25 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Yasmine Nachabe Taan interviews Lebanese illustrator and animator Bahij Jaroudi about his professional journey and motivation. Bahij talks about the i...
Khatt Chronicles in Conversation With Naji El Mir
27 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès interviews Lebanese-French Graphic Designer Naji El Mir about his beginnings in graphic design and animation. The discussi...
Introducing Season 2 of Khatt Chronicles: Stories on Design From the Arab World
30 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is the official launch of Season 2 of the Khatt Chronicles podcast. In this episode Afikra host, Mikey Mhanna, introduces the Khatt Ch...
Khatt Chronicles in Conversation With Hussein Alazaat
16 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Huda AbiFarès interviews Hussein Alazaat about his passion since childhood for Arabic letters, Arab comics, and Arab graphic design. Alazaat discuss...
Khatt Chronicles in Conversation With Farah Fayyad
19 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Huda AbiFarès interviews Farah Fayyad about her passion for and practice as screen printer at her co-founded Nice Nice Prints. She candidly tells he...
Khatt Chronicles in Conversation With Turbo Studio
15 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Huda AbiFarès interviews Turbo Studio founders Mothanna Hussein and Saeed Abu-Jaber about the story behind their the founding of their studio and the...
Khatt Chronicles in Conversation With Margherita Abi Hanna
17 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Huda AbiFarès interviews Magherita Abi Hanna about the relation between her graphic design background and her contemporary jewellery design. Ghita di...
Khatt Chronicles in Conversation With Pascal Zoghbi
13 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Yara Khoury Nammour interviews Pascal Zoghbi, from 29LT type foundry, about his love for Arabic letters and typography. Zoghbi discusses the practice ...
Khatt Chronicles in Conversation With Foundland Collective
16 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ghalia Elsrakbi is a design professional, researcher, and design educator. After obtaining her a Master's degree in Design at the Sandberg Institute, ...
Khatt Chronicles in Conversation With Nathalie Fallaha
18 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Yara Khoury Nammour interviews Nathalie Fallaha about her entrepreneurship and design ventures. The interview explores Fallaha’s agency specialisati...
Khatt Chronicles in Conversation With Karim Farah
14 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Huda AbiFarès interviews Karim Farah about his graphic design and Arabic lettering work. The interview explores the potential of music in Karim’s d...
Khatt Chronicles in Conversation With Jana Traboulsi
16 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Khatt interviews Jana Traboulsi about the relation between drawing, illustration and expressive graphic design. The talk explores ideas on engagement ...
Khatt Chronicles in Conversation With Joan Baz
05 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Khatt interviews Joan Baz, designer, illustrator, and animator about her professional journey and process as an illustrator and animator. Baz discusse...
Khatt Chronicles in Conversation With Lina Ghaibeh
05 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Khatt interviews Lina Ghaibeh, illustrator, animator, and comics artist about her practice and the potential of graphic narratives in giving voice to ...
Khatt Chronicles in Conversation With Hatem Imam
13 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Khatt interviews Hatem Imam from Studio Safar talking about design as a tool for cultural production and effecting change. A talk about alternative pu...
Introducing Khatt Chronicles: Stories on Design From the Arab World
02 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Today's pilot episode introduces our audience to the Beirut-based board members at Khatt Foundation, who will be interviewing the designers featured d...