A Meeting of Cultures: Fashioning North Africa

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A Meeting of Cultures is a pathbreaking work focused specifically on contemporary fashion designers and influencers in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt. Lavishly illustrated, it broadens the scope of scholarship on the fashion industry, which to date has focused mainly on American and European designers.

North Africa has always been a crossroads of cultures. To illuminate the myriad facets of the local fashion and fashion industry, this comprehensive publication showcases the works of contemporary fashion designers along with photography by fashion photographers, journalists and social media influencers. Organised around three themes, "Disruptors", "Our Land", and "Threads", the catalogue showcases fashion practitioners from across North Africa who work to retain cultural distinctiveness while adapting to contemporary concerns ranging from sustainability to gender identity.

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Sara Hume is Professor and Curator of Kent State University Museum. Her research in the history of dress has focused on the global reach of the fashion industry. She earned her PhD in Modern European History from the University of Chicago, a BA in Art from Yale University and an MA in Museum Studies from the Fashion Institute of Technology.

Nada Koreish is a lecturer across multiple disciplines with over fifteen years of experience in the design industry and a doctoral scholar, focusing on decoloniality and fashion in North Africa. She is the founder of the Fashion Liberation Collective North Africa, a disruptor, and a mother. Always striving to reclaim our history, our own table.

Contributions by Zineb Achoubie, Kazna Askar, Fares Ben Abdeslam, Sara Hume, May Kassem and Ali Nawawi, Nada Koreish, Daki Marouf, Norhan Tarek Ali Elsakkout.