Fall for Print: Beirut Art Book Fair – First Edition

Beirut Art Center is pleased to announce the first edition of Fall for Print: Beirut Art Book Fair, taking place in September 2025 and dedicated to celebrating and amplifying publishing practices and print cultures from the Global South with a special focus on the SWANA region.

Fall for Print targets independent and alternative publishing houses, printmaking studios, artist-run initiatives, and self-publishing practitioners to share their work, engage with new audiences, and connect with peers.

By initiating and organizing this fair, Beirut Art Center aims to highlight the diversity of publishing forms across the region, from books and zines to artist editions, prints, rare archives, exhibition catalogues, pamphlets, and art ephemera: Fall for Print is open to a broad spectrum of printed and bound matter.

Participants

40mustaqel, 51personae, Al Hayya magazine, Arab Image Foundation, Beirut Art Center, Beirut Printmaking Studio, Cold Cuts Magazine, Dongola Limited Editions, Falschrum Books, Haven for Artists, Huwawa Books, Hyperhouse Publishing, Journal Safar, Kaph Books, Kayfa Ta, Mauzoun, Mizna, Nora Aly, Plan BEY, Rizomasr, Rusted Radishes, salasil, Samandal Comics, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sursock Museum, The Mosaic Rooms, Tosh Fesh, Waraq.

Un/bind – Public Program for Fall for Print

Un/bind is the public program of the first edition of Fall for Print, andunfolds as a series of conversations, workshops, launches, signings, and performances that explore publishing as an act of liberation intellectually, politically, and materially.

The title Un/bind plays with dual meanings: the literal process of bookbinding and physical publishing, and the metaphorical act of releasing knowledge, defying dominant narratives, and loosening the constraints imposed by colonial history and institutional filtering of information. Through the lens of print and publishing, Un/bind seeks to examine how artists, writers, collectives, and publishers are using printed matter as a tool to forge collective memory and reimagine established social and political configurations.

The program invites practitioners to reflect on the politics of making and distributing knowledge: Who gets to publish? Who are the publics addressed? What are the challenges of publishing across geographies and struggles? It will foster encounters between artists, authors, publishers, printmaking collectives, and their readers. Un/bind aims to extend the objectives of Fall for Print into a discursive and generative space, inviting the audience to consider publishing not only as an outcome, but as an open-ended, collaborative, and unbound process.

Public Program Schedule

Friday, 28 September 

6:00 PM Book Signing by Fouad El Khoury for Cinema Cairo Palace with Kaph Books

6:30 PM – 9:00 PM Writing as Riot: Writing Workshop with Lylla Younes (read more here)

7:00 PM The Designer as Publisher: Discussion with Nora Aly, Mina Maurice, and Nada Hesham moderated by Jana Traboulsi (read more here)

Saturday, 27 September

1:00 PM – 3:30 PM Writing Between Instinct & Intention: Writing Workshop with Lina Mounzer (read more here)

Sunday, 28 September 

1:00 PM – 3:30 PM Offsetting the Machine: Writing Workshop with Nadine Mouawad (read more here)

3:00 PM Publishers as World-Makers:Discussion with Mohamad Abdouni, Dayna Ash, Stefan Maneval, and Yasmine Rifaii moderated by Samira Makki (read more here)

4:00 PM Book Signing by Abboudy Mallah forThe Puppeteer with Kaph Books

9:00 PM Live Music Performance by NÂR and Khyam Allami

Organized by Ibrahim Nehme and Myriam Khoury.

Visual by Robin Khalil.