The Rada and Mutaz Sawaf Center for Arab Comics Studies at the American University of Beirut is an academic body that will act as a hub for the critical study of Comics art from the Arab World. The Center, uniquely positioned in Beirut, aims to promote the research, teaching, and production of this artform, while building a collection of archival and contemporary Arab comics, in order to preserve its heritage, and embrace this medium and its canons as an integral feature of contemporary Arab art, while aspiring to place it on a global stage.