Editorial · Editor-in-Chief

Poetics Magazine

Editor-in-chief and visual director for a literary periodical — twelve issues, a podcast, a contributor network.

Role
Editor-in-Chief, then Managing Editor before that
Year
2021–2024
Region
MENA · Diaspora
Poetics Magazine — visual identity, covers, layout, video

Poetics is the most formative thing on this list. I started as Managing Editor in 2021 — running the submission pipeline, managing the contributor network, building the operational infrastructure for eight issues. Then Editor-in-Chief from mid-2023 through 2024, leading editorial and visual direction for twelve more issues, plus eighteen podcast episodes and social channels that scaled to ten thousand-plus followers.

Every issue was an exercise in voice. Building consistent authority across language, image, and form with twenty-five-plus international contributors, most of them remote, most of them working in two or three languages. The discipline of holding tone across a periodical with that many voices is what shows up in everything I've designed since — the structural patience, the comfort with editorial constraint as a generator rather than a limit.

Most of the magazine is in print. The visual identity, the covers, the layout system, the video work — all on Behance.

See the full project on Behance →