It has taken many years for queer subjects from the SWANA region to be represented in design practice. It has taken even longer for queer voices from the design community to emerge. Marwan Kaabour and Wael Morcos both operate within this realm.
Wael is the co-founder of Morcos Key, a Brooklyn-based design studio collaborating with arts & cultural institutions, non-profits, and commercial enterprises in North America and the Middle East. Marwan runs his own design practice, which operates in the fields of art and culture, as well as launching Takweer in 2019, a platform that aims to explore queer narratives in Arab history and popular culture.
Both practitioners explore the ways their design practice as a tool that gives visual form and space to tell queer stories. Beyond the subject of their work itself, they also use their own voice and gaze to queer the design process itself.
