AA alum Shaha Raphael features in AD New Arab Voices 2025

AA alum Shaha Raphael has featured in Architectural Digest Middle East’s New Arab Voices 2025. The feature 'spotlights nine rising voices whose work fuses craft, memory, and material innovation to reimagine what designing from – and for – the Arab world means today’.

The article quotes Raphael, now based in Beirut, Lebanon, as saying '"We make objects because it’s an instinctual act: to process the world around us and reflect it back to itself. It is the tools that unlock new languages of making,” she says. “Our culture has always been recorded in material artefacts that stand as markers of civilisation, of advancement, of beauty and sensibility. By working with local materials and craftspeople, I see each piece as part of that continuum, showing the region as active and contributing to culture today.”'

Read the full article here.