Sharjah Biennial 16

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is a scholar of racial inequality in public policy making and the various ways that Black communities have challenged or resisted these constraints.

Amal Khalaf is a curator and artist who serves as Director of Programmes at Cubitt (2019–present) and Civic Curator at the Serpentine Galleries (2009–present), both in London.

Is an independent researcher and writer.

Aline Khoury is a cultural manager, producer and researcher living and working in Palestine.

Sonal Khullar is W. Norman Brown Associate Professor of South Asian Studies in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania.

Is a historian of modern and contemporary art and theory of the Middle East and is Assistant Professor of Global Modern Art in the History of Art Department at the University of California, Berkeley.

Is an artist, writer and founder of the notfor-profit Art South Asia.

Matthew Lutton has directed and created more than 45 productions, ranging from re-inventions of Australian classic stories, grand opera, adaptions of classic novels and dance theatre.

Zeina Maasri is Senior Lecturer in History of Art at the University of Bristol.

A lifelong political activist, Rachida Madani is a poet, novelist and painter.

Is a journalist, writer and media specialist concerned with the Middle East.

Walter D. Mignolo’s research focuses on exposing modernity/coloniality as a machine that generates and maintains un-justices (injustices?) and on exploring decolonial ways of delinking from the modernity/coloniality.

Salwa Mikdadi’s research focuses on modern and contemporary art of the Arab world, Arab art institutions, gender and politics in art and museums and their visitors.

A scholar and theorist of media, visual art, and literature, W. J. T. Mitchell is associated with the emergent fields of visual culture and iconology (the study of images across the media).

Sally Mizrachi is Executive Director and General Coordinator of lugar a dudas, a contemporary art center in Cali, Colombia that focuses on the intersections and borders between visual arts, cultural practices and the search for inclusive and expansive dialogue.