Through his practice, multimedia artist and filmmaker Ahmad Ghossein examines the connection between individual human experiences and shared historical and political realities.

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.

Ryan Inouye is associate curator of Sharjah Biennial 12.

Over the past few years, Iman Issa’s work has explored the contemporary relevance of objects, ideas and modes of communication that seemingly belong to another time.

Eungie Joo is curator of contemporary art at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) (2017–present) and was curator of Sharjah Biennial 12: The past, the present, the possible (2015).

Abdellah Karroum is the Director of Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha.

Hassan Khan is an artist, musician and writer.

Is an independent researcher and writer.

Working with video, photography 
and installation, Cinthia Marcelle choreographs interventions that often transform mundane or redundant gestures into poetic displays of exchange.

Julie Mehretu is best known for her large-scale paintings that layer geographical schema, maps and architectural representations of the city –the compressed and densely populated urban environments of the twenty-first century as well as cities with histories of erasure.

Rodrigo Moura is a curator, editor and writer

Gabi Ngcobo is an artist and curator.

Curator and writer, Zeynep Öz was the co-founder and director of the Spot Production Fund, Istanbul (2011–2017)

Is a writer, curator and co-founder of Beirut, a space of art in Cairo that thinks about institution building as a curatorial act.

Rasha Salti is an independent Curator and freelance Writer, working and living between New York and Beirut.