Founder & Designer
Badr Adduja Arts & crafts
June 1999 – Present (13 years 8 months)
• More than 19 years dynamically helping Arab Artisans attain financial liberty, encouraging the employment of their traditional skills, into attractive contemporary handicrafts.
• A worldwide promoter of the richness of the Arabian heritage, utilizing it's aged beauty as a fresh characteristic, to adorn modern furnishings and home accessories.
• A conservationist with a mission to help preserve the traditional facets of Arabian crafting skills, from fading away.
• Participated in several international handicraft festivals, where my creations were introduced to Arab and European countries, as part of the Mediterranean handicraft promotion.
• Expressed my own vision on heritage preservation, through the holding of several fashion shows in Jordan & abroad.
-Winner of Silver A Design Award 2012-2013.
- Won the 2nd Laureate of the UNESCO crafts prize for the Arab states, held in Algeria in 2002, for the design of a unique wooden chair, carved and decorated with Traditional Palestinian intricate embroidery and motifs.
- Member of International Women Forum, Jordan Branch
- Member of the Jordanian Forum for Business & Professional Women, networking to enhance, develop and empower business women in Jordan.
- Member of the world Crafts Council.
- Member of Alhoush Network,.which is the premier cultural networking and e-commerce portal to contemporary art and design from the Arab world.
http://alhoush.com/may-mikhail-khoury

Work History
1999-Present Badr Adduja Arts & Crafts
Founder, Managing Director, and Designer
Badr Adduja Brand is the signature of novel crafts, charged with traditional authenticity, handmade with personal creativity by the founder & designer, May Khoury.
Inaugurated in 1999 Badr Adduja has been cultivating the talents of over 30 artisans & craftsmen, insuring them a stability of income while sustaining their craftsmanship skills towards preserving the richness of Arabian Folk & Heritage
Badr Adduja Trends:
1-Representing Heritage pieces in a new perspective that tackles our memories.
2-Utilizing our old handicrafts aesthetically to blend within our modern lifestyle.
3-Creating new concepts that have a touch & a signature of our tradition

1994-1999 Al Aydi (Jordan Craft Center) Amman-Jordan
Managing Director and Designer

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15 Abu Tammam street

Amman 11183

P: 00962 6 4650470

F: 00962 6 4650470

may Khoury is IAD member since 2013, with 6095 IAD rating.