Zeina Maasri (PhD) is Senior Lecturer in History of Art at the University of Bristol, UK. She works across the fields of art and design history, with specialism in the visual and cultural politics of the postcolonial Arab world and a broader interest in historical conditions of modernity and (post)coloniality in the Global South. Before relocating to the UK, she was a successful graphic designer and an academic at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon. She is the author of the award-winning book, Cosmopolitan Radicalism: The Visual Politics of Beirut’s Global Sixties (Cambridge University Press 2020, co-winner of the 2021 BKFS Book Prize, UK) and co-editor of the recently published Transnational Solidarity: Anticolonialism in the Global Sixties, Manchester University Press 2022. Among other publications, Maasri is the author of Off the Wall: Political Posters of the Lebanese Civil War (IB Tauris 2009) and curator of related travelling exhibitions and online archival resource (www.signsofconflict.org). She is and elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (UK) and currently on Fellowship from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC-UK, 2022-24) working on her new project ‘Decolonising the Page: The Visual Politics and Poetics of Postcolonial Arabic Publications’.