Nada Ezzeldin

Produced as part of the Futuress “Against the Grain” fellowship and published on Futuress in September 2022, “The Currency of an Identity: Designing Egyptian Banknotes” examines the designs of Egyptian

How can Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) designers, educators, and researchers imagine transnational identities beyond Western worldviews? This is one of the core questions driving ​​​​​For Us, With Us,

In search of Egyptian identity from ancient Pharaonic civilization, Islamic heritage, pan-Arabism, and back through the study of its banknotes.