This online exhibition sheds light on a remarkable era when Arabic book arts flourished, capturing the artistic, political, and intellectual fervour of decolonisation. During this period, books played a vital role in decolonizing knowledge, imagination, and aesthetic sensibilities, reaching an expanding Arabic readership and global networks of solidarity.

Featuring around 250 books, Decolonizing the Page uncovers the creative labour of designing, illustrating, and co-authoring these works. It highlights the aesthetic concerns and political contestations of a generation of Arab artists and graphic designers engaged in their making. 

Organized across four rooms, the displays invite you to see Arabic books anew—not just as containers of text, but as visually rich designed objects. 

Through this visual lens, the exhibition allows us to recover histories of decolonisation. Its unfinished legacies resonate in today’s renewed decolonial efforts and solidarity movements.