The Broken Wings: Arabic Book
It is a poetic novel by Khalil Gebran about a tale of tragic love, set in turn-of-the-century Beirut. My design throughout this book is based purely on Arabic typographic elements, especially the kashida. The latter is a type of justification used in Arabic scripts to elongate the length of a text and which I played and experimented with profusely. I believe such elongations are suitable to this story seeing as the protagonist is constantly being distanced and separated from his loved one, either by society, extenuating life circumstances or even death. I tried to gradually build up the intertwining storylines of the two lovers with every page, all the while visually portraying the obstacles their relationship faces.
