A visual artist and filmmaker, Eric Baudelaire’s recent projects have explored the possibility
 of self-invention and political imagining.

Rene Gabri is interested in the complex mechanisms which constitute the world around us.

Is the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia.

Khaled Hourani is an artist, writer and curator.

Hassan Khan is an artist, musician and writer.

Is an independent researcher and writer.

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.

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

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).

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.

Is associate professor of Political Science and History at the American University of Beirut, as well as a journalist and editor of the quarterly journal Bidayat.

Is the founder of the architecture office Estce ainsi, a structure working to refocus the architectural practice on its political consequences and its possible participation in the reform of 'vivre ensemble' [living together].