Emirati visual communication designer and creative practitioner Hind Al Shaali is based in Dubai, with a practice spanning design, communication, culture, and storytelling. A graduate of the American University of Sharjah, her experience across the UAE’s art and cultural sectors informs an approach rooted in audience engagement, cultural narratives, and creative expression. 

Haneen | حنين explores memory as something fluid, atmospheric, and continually unfolding. Inspired by a verse by Emirati poet Ali Al Shaali, the tufted work moves between concentrated and fragmented forms, using shifts in texture, colour, and density to evoke how memories gather, disperse, and resurface over time. Its irregular composition gives physical form to the idea of something spreading quietly and gradually, translating memory into material, rhythm, and movement.

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