Bahia Shehab’s A Thousand Times No (Essen) started as a research-based project at the intersection of Islamic art history and contemporary graphic design. In 2010, the artist collected historical examples of the Arabic letter combination lām-alif , which forms the word for “no”. The project takes as its starting point the Arabic expression lā wa-alf lā – “No, and a thousand times no” – through which Shehab articulates her …
