Nora Zeid is an award-winning illustrator and visual artist based in Dubai.

Nora’s work focuses on representing culture and heritage. Her illustrations, both coloured and black and white, depict bustling cityscape, intricate patterns and lively scenes celebrating the regions.

Nora research revolves around collecting stories and memories. She weaves them with the historical and cultural context of the spaces in which they happened, inviting people to look at their built heritage from multiple different perspectives. This creates a duality, between the personal and the general, the small and the big picture, making the topic of heritage more accessible.

She is currently collaborating with the Egyptian Heritage Rescue Foundation on her first short graphic novel, funded by the British Council which is set to release in spring of 2025.

CLIENTS Google, Cadillac, Adidas, Estée Lauder, Diwan Publishing, VICE Arabia, Kerning Cultures, Big Hass.

AWARDS
Forbes Middle East 30Under30, Class of 2024
Communication Arts', 2023 Illustration Award

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Revealing, Recording, Reflecting:
Graphic Women from Southwest
Asia and North Africa, Khatt Books, 2024

In A Moment, Corniche V
Sharjah Art Foundation, 2023

Taking Up my Space, Corniche IV
Sharjah Art Foundation, 2022

Over The Bridge Corniche III
Sharjah Art Foundation, 2021

East of Home, Corniche 2020
Sharjah Art Foundation, 2020

EXHIBITIONS
Eyes Closed, Everything You See is Yours
Goethe Institute Kairo / Group Exhibition / May 2024
Curated by Studio Severin in Cairo, Egypt.

Design Dispatch: Poster T-Shirt
Manarat Al Saadiyat / Group Exhibition / Dec 2023
Curated by Mobius Design in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Cairo Illustrated
Cairopolitan / Solo Exhibition / Oct–Nov 2022
Cairo, Egypt.

Cairo Illustrated: Stories from Heliopolis
Tashkeel / Solo Exhibition / Sept-Oct 2021
Dubai, UAE.

Future Designer with Mariam AlZayani
SIKKA Art Fair / Group Exhibition / March 2019
Dubai, UAE.