stories connect us

When more stories circulate, more people can recognise themselves and discover experiences beyond their own.

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2027 CAMPAIGN -ILLUSTRATED ARAB

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Your contribution brings contemporary Arab visual stories to new readers, publishers and cultural spaces.

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Stories in Motion

We look at how Arab visual narratives move across languages, places and audiences, and what makes that movement possible.

Human creativity and cultural diversity remain at the heart of it.

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Essays, Articles & Interviews
In Conversation with Shiroug Idris
Interviews
In Conversation with Shiroug Idris
Interviews

Sudanese doctor and award-winning artist Shiroug Idris talks about balancing medicine and illustration, the images that shaped her childhood, and developing her first book, The Girl Who Spoke to the Nile, through the Illustrated Arab programme.

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Interviews
The Women Who Expanded the World of Arab Children’s Books
Arab Children’s Publishing
The Women Who Expanded the World of Arab Children’s Books
Arab Children’s Publishing

From Beirut to Cairo, Amman, Sharjah and Rabat, women publishers have transformed Arabic children’s books, expanding their literary, visual and international reach.

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Arab Children’s Publishing
Haya Halaw’s The Little World Inside featured in The New Arab
Features, Authored Projects, Illustrators, Syria, News
Haya Halaw’s The Little World Inside featured in The New Arab
Features, Authored Projects, Illustrators, Syria, News

An excerpt from The New Arab feature on Haya Halaw and The Little World Inside

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Features, Authored Projects, Illustrators, Syria, News

CURRENT FLAGSHIP PROGRAMME

Illustrated Arab supports selected author-led visual narrative projects through editorial development, professional guidance and international circulation.

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