The Onboz family would like to hear children, parents, and teachers say: “Arabic is beautiful,” “Arabic books are wonderful”, “wow, these books were made here, in Beirut? By people from here?” “ it’s amazing, I never thought that we produce in Lebanon such great music”, “this animation was done by a Lebanese artist, I can’t believe it,” “I want to become an artist when I grow up”…

The Onboz family would like to see toddlers, children and youth enjoying and loving Arabic books and parents reading them to their children.

The Onboz family would like to create connections between writers, artists, designers, typographers, filmmakers, musicians and activists who want to contribute in building their society through a book, a drawing, a song, a photograph, an awareness campaign, a word, a film, or an animation. We would like to join forces with anyone who believes that culture and art is an indispensable tool of growth, strength, and transformation.

The Onboz family believes that by producing we create stronger structures on which we build our future, and we break the cycle of apathy and passive consumption.

Hence, Dar Onboz was born from a dream renewing itself with every project.
Dar Onboz is a platform for critical thinking, development, and dialogue around
the Arabic language, the presence of Arabic books in all the stages of our lives, the relationship of the editor to the reader, the possibility of becoming a writer or an artist in our society,
Dar Onboz is about infiltrating the written and the visual media with interesting and intelligent programs.

Dar Onboz is about having workshops with schools and public libraries around creative writing, illustration, and other forms of expression.
Dar Onboz is about interacting with parents, listening to children, and listening to people.

Dar Onboz is seeking to build a house that reinforces free souls and wide imaginations, a house that celebrates teamwork.

Dar Onboz is the beginning of a childhood journey, living in us forever. We would like to see our books, music, animations, films and comics travel from Lebanon to the rest of the world.

It takes all of us to make this happen.
Join us!

Nadine R.L Touma