Sharjah Biennial 16

Paul Domela is Programme Director of Liverpool Biennial after being Deputy Chief Executive from 2001-2007.

Ntone Edjabe is founder and Editor-in-Chief of Chimurenga, a journal and platform for editorial and curatorial activities.

Fadi El Abdullah is a poet, lawyer, communicator, writer and music critic with a wide range of performances and publications.

Haidar El Ali is an ecologist, documentary filmmaker and Senegalese government minister.

Jihan El Tahri is a multi-award-winning film director, writer, visual artist and producer.

Fouad Elkoury is a photographer and a video artist.

Papa Demba Fall is a researcher whose interests centre on African, and particularly Senegalese, migrations.

Patrick Flores is Professor of Art Studies at the Department of Art Studies at the University of the Philippines, Manila.

Fouad Makki is Director of the Polson Institute for Global Development (2019–present) and Associate Professor in the Department of Global Development at Cornell University. He is also a founding board member of Cornell’s Institute for Comparative Modernities.

Anthony Gardner, Professor of Contemporary Art History at the University of Oxford, investigates postwar and contemporary art and curatorial histories, critical theories, and temporal and body-based media.

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is a Professor at Columbia University. Her core interest is humanities for social justice. She has taught globally and held permanent posts in several US universities, including at Iowa, Texas-Austin, Emory and Pittsburgh.

Art historian and independent curator Terri Geis is a Visiting Associate Professor, Art and Art History, at New York University, Abu Dhabi.

Alexander Gray is Owner and Principal of Alexander Gray Associates, a contemporary art gallery in New York, established in 2007.

Is the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia.

Mohammed Hafiz is the Co-Founder of Athr Gallery and the CEO of Al-Sawani Group, a fashion and lifestyle retail company in Saudi Arabia.