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.

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].