Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
ABOUT
Lara Balaa is a doctoral student at the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Her main research focuses on the early modern Latin-Arabic textbook as a cultural encounter between Europe and the Arab world. She also researches contemporary visual culture in Lebanon, and is the author of the volume ‘Emile Menhem: Invigorating Arab Journalism Through Graphic Design’ (2019) in Khatt Books’ Arabic Design Library series. Prior to joining Rutgers University in 2018, Lara was a practicing editorial designer and a lecturer at the Beirut Arab University in Lebanon, where she taught history and theory of visual communication, typography, and design studio courses.
Discipline
Library Science
Sub Areas
Arabic
Comparative
Visual Cultural
Translation
Transnationalism
Publishing
Middle East/Near East Studies
Education
Identity/Representation
Historiography
All Time Periods
Cultural Studies
Cinema/Film
Geographic Areas of Interest
Europe
Fertile Crescent
Islamic World
Lebanon
Specialties
Print Culture
Design History
Arabic Calligraphy
Languages
Arabic (native)
English (fluent)
French (fluent)
Education
MA
| 2010
| Communication
| The Hague University of Applied Sciences
BA
| 2002
| Graphic Design
| American University of Beirut
Abstracts
The Visual Representation of the Disappeared in Post-War Lebanon: Between Transitional Justice and Historicity
