Yasmine Nachabe Taan is an associate professor of art and design history and director of the Institute of Art in the Arab World at the Lebanese American University in Beirut. Her interdisciplinary research spans visual culture, gender politics, photography and design history, with a focus on the Middle East and North Africa.

From 2021 to 2023, Yasmine was the lead researcher on Revealing Recording Reflecting, a project funded by the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC), the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Khatt Foundation. The project examined generations of women working as graphic designers in Southwest Asia, North Africa and their diasporas. In 2020, she was awarded the Design History Society Research Grant for her work on Mouna Bassili Sehnaoui: The First Lebanese Woman Graphic Designer to Brand Her Nation, published by Khatt Books in 2023. In 2021, she received the 10x10 Photobooks grant to study Catherine Leroy’s photographic practice in Beirut.

She is the author of several publications, including Reading Marie al-Khazen’s Photographs (2020), Saloua Raouda Choucair: Modern Arab Design (2019), Abdulkader Arnaout: Designing as Visual Poetry (2017), and Hilmi el-Tuni, Evoking Popular Arab Culture (2014).

Yasmine serves on the advisory board of the academic journal Design and Culture and on the board of trustees of the Khatt Foundation (Amsterdam) and the Design History Society (London).