Sharjah Biennial 16

Müge Turan is a film curator at the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art (2008–present).

Elizabeth W. Giorgis is Associate Professor of Art History, Theory and Criticism at The Africa Institute.

Andrea Wallace examines the impact of digital technologies on the preservation, interpretation and dissemination of cultural heritage as well as the obstacles and opportunities presented by the digital realm.

Pianist Tarek Yamani has dedicated himself to exploring relationships between African American jazz and classical Arabic music.

Suraj Yengde is a research associate at the Department of African and African American Studies in Harvard University.

Zahid R. Chaudhary is Associate Professor of English at Princeton University. He specialises in postcolonial studies, visual culture and critical theory.

Abdulrahman Zainal expresses his ethical and political vision in his work, aiming not to depict his subject matter realistically but rather to portray its narrative context.

Abdeslam Ziou Ziou is an independent researcher and art consultant whose research focuses on collective art practices and dynamics, pedagogical experiments and the development of the art world in post-colonial Morocco since the 1960s.