Dr. Arafat Al-Naim

Former Dean College of Design (CDES)

Dr. Arafat Al-Naim is the former Dean of College of Design (CDES), American University in the Emirates (AUE). He is a graphic artist, designer, and educator at heart, and the moving spirit behind numerous international art and design projects. He holds a BFA and MFA degrees, a Ph.D. in Graphic Arts, and MST in art teaching from the National Academy of Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria.

He has lectured and presented research papers at international conferences. Graphic works by Dr. Arafat Al-Naim can be found in Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas (USA), Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon (USA), Wrexham Yale Memorial Gallery, Wrexham (UK), National Gallery of Foreign Art, Sofia (Bulgaria), State Museum Gyõr (Hungary), University of Wales Collection, Aberystwyth (UK), and Nord Art – Kunstwerk Carlshütte (Germany) among others. He has exhibited his works in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Sweden, Italy, North Ireland, FYROM, Germany, Bulgaria, USA, Canada, Cyprus, South Africa, Tunisia, the Netherlands, Brazil, Japan, Egypt, South Korea, Syria, Turkey, Jordan, and several more countries. He was awarded the “Rhea Bally” Art Award of the IBC, Cambridge, UK in 2008 and the “Best Professor in Design” at the Asian Education Leadership Awards in 2014.