Jana Traboulsi

Jana Traboulsi has been teaching Graphic Design since February 2004 at the American University of Beirut from where she acquired a Bachelor of Graphic Design in 2000. She obtained her Masters degree in Media and Communication Studies in 2002 from Goldsmiths College in London, UK, and a Masters in Multimedia Studies from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle in Paris, France, in 2003.

She has since been working as a freelance designer mostly in print design, for diverse organizations and cultural institutions. She is interested in visual communication as a means of dialogue, commentary, narration, and as an active tool for social change, for raising awareness or calling for action.  

"CNN, Underground, & Roots"

I had been sitting in the living room for an hour under the sound of Israeli planes and bombs when I asked:

"So this is it? This is what people do during the war? They just sit home and wait to be bombed?"

And it happened to be so. If your neighborhood or your house is not being bombed, you stay in, or under it when possible, and wait. Wait for the bombing to stop. You can also shout, cook, listen to the radio, or make love, wash the floor, bite your nails, eat, get worried or be horrified.

Or draw.