Abdullah Al Owais is the Chairman of the Department of Culture and Information, Sharjah, and member of the Executive Council of the Emirate of Sharjah.

Abdullah Al Saadi’s work ranges from painting, drawing and the creation of lengthy artists’ notebooks to the collection and systematic categorisation of found objects and the invention of new alphabets.

Working within the realm of sound, Tarek Atoui is an artist and composer who explores new methods of collaboration and production.

Doryun Chong is Chief Curator of M+, a museum for visual culture scheduled to open in 2017 in Hong Kong

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

Fouad Elkoury is a photographer and a video artist.

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.

Is an independent researcher and writer.

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.

Kaelen Wilson-Goldie is a writer and critic who divides her time (unevenly) between Beirut and New York.