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pop-up book resumes

Last October I was asked to work on a pop-up book. So I took on what I believed to be a challenge, not only because of the technical aspect of it but the subject matter itself: the migration of Palestinians to Kuwait in the early 50s, and its footprint on Kuwaiti society. I like to […]

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Ghadah said, “I just sketched three drawings about quotations marks.”

I hate quotation marks. For years at school I struggled with the usage of these minute yet highly specific squiggles Do they come after or before a comma? Do I capitalize the word following one, or not? Where and when do I use a period? These tiny, little marks are so specific and rule-heavy I think […]

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airplane timelines } british airways flights 156 & 157 kuwait to london and back } august 15th-august 18th, 2013

I know my posts have been chronologically topsy turvy, but I don’t think it really matters in the grander scheme of things.

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Grow Up & Blow Away

I thought to myself this morning: Ghadah, you haven’t updated your blog for a while and you haven’t done anything new for days. Why don’t you just do the lazy thing and re-post something from the archives? So I’m re-posting this stop motion animation I did for the song ‘Grow Up and Blow Away’ by […]

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