Alex Dahdah

Aaqoura Renaissance

Aaqoura’s original multiscript emblem as a reflective red metal shield, turning gently left and right

About the work

Identity, campaign direction, web design and writing for Aaqoura Renaissance, a community initiative in Aaqoura, Lebanon. A shield brings the town’s mountain landscape and name in four scripts into a wider system of campaign graphics, letters, video and an English–Arabic website.

Medium
Identity, campaign & website
Year
2025
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Alex’s contribution

Alex Dahdah · Campaign leadership, identity, web design & writing

Aaqoura.org credits Alex with the logo and with the website’s principal design, development and maintenance through October 2025.

A place,
in four scripts.

Landscape, language and local heritage meet in a single emblem.

Aaqoura emblem: mountain silhouettes and a Maronite cross beneath the town’s name in four scripts
Multiscript emblem · designed by Alex Dahdah.

One name, four writing systems

  • 01Latin
  • 02Arabic
  • 03Syriac
  • 04Phoenician

The shield brings together Aaqoura’s mountain silhouettes, the Maronite cross, and its name in Latin, Arabic, Syriac and Phoenician scripts.

Created for the Aaqoura Renaissance initiative. The emblem is presented here as a design proposal for the town.

Read the identity’s published context ↗
Aaqoura Renaissance wordmark in English and Arabic
The initiative’s English and Arabic wordmark · original asset from Aaqoura.org.

The identity,
in public.

An online home for the initiative’s mission, writing and programme material.

Aaqoura Renaissance English mission page, showing its published identity and site navigation
Current website view · October 2026. Alex’s credited website work ran through October 2025.

Aaqoura.org carries the identity across English and Arabic pages, bringing the initiative’s writing, local context and public programme into one website.

The site credits Alex with the logo and with its principal design, development and maintenance through October 2025. The live site continues beyond that period.

Website & identity credit ↗About the initiative →

Credits

From emblem
to applications.

Identity studies and campaign graphics from Alex’s published portfolio.

Proposed committee identity system, applying the emblem across nine areas of municipal work.
01Proposed committee identity system, applying the emblem across nine areas of municipal work.
Identity poster combining the multiscript shield with the initiative’s English and Arabic names.
02Identity poster combining the multiscript shield with the initiative’s English and Arabic names.
Illustrated campaign poster using the mountain landscape, the emblem and a torch motif.
03Illustrated campaign poster using the mountain landscape, the emblem and a torch motif.
Campaign illustration and Arabic typography addressing local heritage and community life.
04Campaign illustration and Arabic typography addressing local heritage and community life.

The committee identities are a proposed system. Campaign proposals and published programme material describe intended work.

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