Elias NafaaAbout Index
Elias Nafaa is an  artist, architect, and researcher working between Montréal and Beirut. Through sculpture, moving-image essays, and archival interventions, he examines how infrastructures of protection can mirror the very violence they claim to avert. Navigating the fragile line where acts of care tip into coercion, Nafaa translates states of emergency into charged material and narrative forms.

A graduate of Ashkal Alwan’s Home Workspace Program, he is part of the Public Programs team at the Canadian Centre for Architecture and a 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale Fellow (Canada Council for the Arts). His work has been presented at Galerie Tanit (Beirut) and the Institut du monde arabe (Paris), with a forthcoming presentation at Manif d’art, Québec Biennale (Québec City). It is held in the collections of the Institut du monde arabe (Donation Claude & France Lemand), the Dalloul Art Foundation, and the Beirut Museum of Art.





DAS 03 | Provoking the Territory: Bernard Khoury Publication
Dongola Limited Editions, Beirut
2025
Dongola Architecture Series (DAS), Dongola Limited Editions. Hardcover, English. 280 pages. 28 × 23 cm.

Text by MK Harb. Captions by Elias Nafaa. Series editor-in-chief: Raafat Majzoub. Research and editing: Elias Nafaa.

The third installment in the Dongola Architecture Series, the book reads Bernard Khoury’s practice through Beirut’s contradictions, using his work as a lens on the ethics, politics, and aesthetics of urban storytelling.

Distributed internationally through Les Presses du Réel.

More information: Dongola Limited Editions

© 2026 Elias Nafaa Montréal / Beirut