Artist of the month
Helen Zughaib
Basil Kiwan
Each month, we introduce the artist whose work is featured on the cover and at the beginning of the focus section of our monthly edition.
Helen Zughaib was born in Beirut, Lebanon and forced to flee her country due to the ongoing war at the age of 16. This early experience has shaped much of her work over the years.
As an Arab American, her work reflects her desire to encourage dialogue and understanding between East and West. Working primarily in gouache on board and canvas, she recently has used cloth, shoes, wood and glass in mixed media installations.
Her work is about creating empathy, she says. “I am asking the viewer to see through someone else’s eyes, to walk in someone else’s shoes, to reject divisiveness, violence and subjugation of anyone anywhere, giving a voice to the voiceless, to heal and to reflect our shared humanity.”
Her works “Syrian Migration #15” and “Syrian Migration #48” are featured in our Digital Monthly 10/2025 on the cover page and at the beginning of the focus section on integration, respectively.
D+C/E+Z editorial team
