Associate Professor of Graphic Design at the American University of Beirut and a practicing independent graphic designer, Zeina Maasri has been conducting visual arts research since 2004 focusing on the political posters of Lebanon’s civil war. She is the author of Off the Wall: Political Posters of the Lebanese Civil War, (London: I.B.Tauris, 2009). She curated an exhibition of political posters entitled Signs of Conflict in 2008 within the context of Beirut’s 4th edition of Home Works by Ashkal Alwan and as part of the 11th edition of the International Istanbul Biennial in 2009.