Arab Global Scholars Platform

Overview

A concept for Arab Global Scholars, a network of researchers, innovators and thought leaders across the Arab world and its diaspora. I designed it on my own as part of a tender proposal.

It covers a public website for visitors and a private workspace for Fellows and partners: discovery, research, opportunities, events and governance, built on one design system.

Two audiences, one network. The public should feel the reach of the network at a glance; Fellows and partners need a place to work. The concept answers both with a public website and a private workspace that share one visual language, so stepping from one into the other feels like the same place.

The network, made visible. One idea runs through the concept: a living globe of Arab minds. It opens the home page and returns in the directory, where every Fellow is a point on the map, selectable to see who works where.

People first. Fellows are the heart of AGS, so people lead. The same roster switches to a portrait grid with filters by institution, country, region, discipline and pillar. Black-and-white portraits keep a mixed set of photos consistent, and each profile opens with the person, their field and their city before the publications and citations.

A workspace that knows you. Members and partners sign in through the same door; partners can use their organisation's Microsoft account. Inside, a partner's dashboard opens on what needs attention: the next event, a featured match and how their active postings are doing.

Run by its Fellows. Opportunities are ranked by fit to a Fellow's area, pillar, focus and country, shown as a match score. Governance lives in the same workspace: the steering committee, working groups and open votes, one click from the research.

Built on a small system. One deep green and one bright yellow over a warm neutral scale; Space Grotesk for headings and Urbanist for reading; spacing and radius on a 4-point scale. Small enough to stay consistent across the website and the workspace.