Sharjah Biennial 16

Stephanie Mahmoud has spent over a decade working in marketing, project management and brand strategy.

The work of Firoz Mahmud is an investigation into social, political and belief systems and their interaction with human reality, both historically and in the present.

Jens Maier-Rothe is an independent curator

Lina Majdalanie is an actress, director and playwright based in Lebanon.

Dr. Cesar A. Majul was one of the foremost historians and thinkers of Filipino Nationalism, the Philippine Revolution and the sociopolitical thought of national hero Jose Rizal and revolutionary leader Apolinario Mabini.

Working primarily with video but also with installation, photography and performance, Taus Makhacheva questions the unstable boundary between similarity and difference, acceptance and rejection, and draws attention to efforts to merge, mimic, assimilate or leak into what is other.

Tiffany Malakooti is a graphic designer and Head of Special Projects at Bidoun.

Nalini Malani’s experimental practice encompasses theatre, ephemeral wall drawings, erasure performances and video/shadow plays that stretch media and aesthetic boundaries.

During his 35 year career in cinema, Mohamad Malas has tried to achieve his own film project, focusing on the ‘missing’ in time and place within the Syrian community.

Malaysia Design Archive embraces an open practice of archiving and pedagogy that enables greater critical engagement with visual culture and history.

Challenging disciplinary distinctions, Malek Gnaoui works with printmaking and ceramics alongside installation and video to provide performative qualities to his work. Ala Eddine Slim is a filmmaker and producer who utilises the absurdity of contemporary events as material for the creation of fictional realities.

Waheeda Malullah is a multidisciplinary artist whose two-decade practice examines the socialised norms of Bahrani society and wider Arabian Gulf context through a playful, performative lens.

Sahar Mandour is a writer, journalist and novelist based in Lebanon.