Dr. Chadi Adib Salama

Chadi Salama is a visual artist, researcher, and lecturer at the Faculty of Art Education, Helwan University. His practice focuses on the intersection of design, craftsmanship, and visual narrative—especially through the form of the artist’s book.

In 2010, he founded It Looks Like a Book, a community initiative exploring papermaking, binding, and bookmaking as a medium for artistic expression. Chadi’s work treats the book as a tactile, reflective space—a vessel for memory and personal experience. He has exhibited locally and internationally since 1999 and received multiple awards, including First Prize in Installation Art at the Heritage Arts Biennale in Ecuador (2012) and Grand Mural Prize at the Youth Salon in 2007 and 2008. In 2018, he curated the 8th International Artist’s Book Biennale at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina.