Bahia Shehab is an artist, designer and art historian. She is Associate Professor of Design and founder of the graphic design program at The American University in Cairo where she has developed a full design curriculum mainly focused on visual culture of the Arab world. She has taught over fifteen courses on the topic Her work has received a number of international recognitions and awards; TED fellowship (2012) and TED Senior fellowship (2016), BBC 100 Women list (2013), The American University in Beirut distinguished alumna (2015), and a Prince Claus Award (2016). Her publications include "A Thousand Times NO: The Visual History of Lam-Alif" published in 2010. She is the first Arab woman to receive the UNESCO-Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture (2016).
Bahia Shehab
Designing the First Arabic Graphic Design MOOC
amazing to hear about the work of Bahia [Shehab]
An Introduction to Graphic Design was released on the Edraak platform in 2016 with content designed to be educational but highly engaging. The talk will showcase the process for designing an engaging online course and the solutions developed to bypass technical limitations on online teaching platforms. It will also highlight the challenges faced in the process and present ideas for possible solutions for a better online teaching and learning environment. Since its release on Edraak, An Introduction to Graphic Design has had over 50,000 learners enroll and has been recommended as one of the best developed courses on the platform.
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