SELECTED EDITORIAL & PUBLISHING WORK
Arabic Editorial and Book Design by Nihad Taisir Nadam
Selected Arabic and bilingual publishing work developed for international academic publishers, cultural institutions, translation initiatives, and authors.
ARABIC EDITORIAL DESIGN WITH CULTURAL AND TECHNICAL DEPTH
Designing books as complete reading systems
Nihad Taisir Nadam is a Creative Director and Arabic Branding Expert with more than 25 years of experience across Arabic editorial design, bilingual publishing, typography, and visual identity.
His publishing work extends beyond visual styling. It combines cover direction, Arabic typography, right-to-left page architecture, bilingual hierarchy, image systems, and print production. The aim is to build books as coherent reading systems rather than collections of separately designed pages.
Core editorial practice
- Arabic book cover and title design
- Arabic and bilingual editorial systems
- Scholarly typesetting and complex texts
- Publishing series and visual continuity
- Print-ready production and quality control
250+
Arabic titles designed and produced for Abu Dhabi cultural publishing initiatives
30+
Titles developed through the Library of Arabic Literature collaboration
16+
Years of academic publishing work with Brill
25+
Years of professional experience in Arabic design and typography
LONG-TERM INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS
Publishing work built across years, not isolated commissions
These relationships span academic, literary, translation, and cultural publishing—often across many years and multiple titles.
ACADEMIC PUBLISHING
Brill
More than 16 years of work on Arabic and English academic titles, bringing typographic discipline and production accuracy to complex scholarly content.
ARABIC LITERARY HERITAGE
NYU Abu Dhabi & Library of Arabic Literature
Publishing work spanning more than 30 titles, from scholarly book-jacket calligraphy to cover design and Arabic typesetting for Young Readers editions.
CULTURAL PUBLISHING
Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre
More than 250 Arabic titles produced across literary works, translations, cultural publications, and award-winning editions for Kalima and Esdarat.
FEATURED COLLABORATION
NYU Abu Dhabi and the Library of Arabic Literature
The Library of Arabic Literature publishes authoritative Arabic editions and English translations of significant works from the Arabic literary tradition. Within this wider publishing programme, Nihad Taisir Nadam has contributed to more than 30 titles.
His contribution to the scholarly series is calligraphic work for selected book jackets, credited under the name Nihad Nadam in the publisher’s acknowledgement of 15 March 2013. For Young Readers editions, his work includes cover design, editorial layout, and Arabic typesetting.
Scope
Arabic cover design, editorial layout, typesetting, and production
Format
Arabic, English, and bilingual publishing
Output
More than 30 titles
View the Young Readers case study →
View the Library of Arabic Literature calligraphy case study
SELECTED COVERS AND VISUAL DIRECTIONS
Arabic book cover and title design
Each cover is developed around the book’s subject, readership, and publishing context. The visual language may be typographic, illustrative, archival, or calligraphic, but the Arabic title always remains structurally central.
SERIES DESIGN
One visual system across many titles
Publishing series demand more than a sequence of attractive covers. They require a repeatable visual language, flexible title hierarchy, consistent spine logic, and enough variation for every book to retain its own identity.
INSIDE THE BOOK
Arabic editorial layout, bilingual publishing, and scholarly typesetting
Arabic typesetting requires control over rhythm, hierarchy, justification, footnotes, diacritics, tables, images, and the interaction between right-to-left and left-to-right content.
WHAT THE WORK REQUIRES
Language expertise translated into production quality
01
Arabic typography
Script-aware hierarchy, spacing, justification, diacritics, and careful font selection.
02
Bilingual systems
Arabic and English layouts that preserve the natural reading logic of both languages.
03
Series architecture
Flexible frameworks for covers, spines, title hierarchy, imagery, and future volumes.
04
Production control
Clean, press-ready files for offset printing, digital editions, and institutional workflows.
NIHAD TAISIR NADAM
Arabic branding expertise applied to publishing
Nihad works across Arabic branding, editorial design, typography, and digital Arabic calligraphy. This combined perspective allows him to approach a book not as a collection of separate pages, but as a coherent cultural and visual system.
He collaborates with publishers, cultural institutions, and authors on selected Arabic and bilingual publications that require strong conceptual direction and exacting production standards.
Planning an Arabic or bilingual publication?
Let’s build an editorial system that respects language, reading, and production from cover concept to press-ready files.