People

31st Century Museum of Contemporary Spirit is a community art project and conceptual museum that is involved in the conversion of body and mind into a place for artistic engagement.

A. R. Rahman is an Indian composer, singer-songwriter, music producer, musician, multi-instrumentalist and philanthropist.

A.S.T. (Alliance of the Southern Triangle) is an experimental initiative of artists, architects and curators.

One of the best known members of the griot families in Mauritania, Dimi Mint Abba’s place in music and storytelling preceded her by three generations.

Basel Abbas works together with Ruanne Abou-Rahme across a range of sound, image, installation and performance practices.

Hamra Abbas has a hugely versatile practice, straddling a range of media in work that often takes a playful look at tradition.

Maitha Abdalla is an interdisciplinary artist who utilises cultural narratives rooted in notions of nostalgia, memory and folklore to question the dynamics of power often represented in parables.

The connection between research and experimentation is fundamental to Mohamed Abdelkarim’s work in video, text, performance and installation.

Youssef Abdelké is a painter and engraver. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Damascus and the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris.

Mohamed Abdelrahman’s presentation will focus on the hitherto neglected artistic and cultural practices of cities on the periphery of the Islamic world.

Adel Abdessemed is a conceptual artist who creates sculptures, drawings, films, performances and installations that engage with and confront global political and social issues.

Abdul Halik Azeez’s work reflects on technologies of power as mediated through contemporary culture, narratives of progress, lived experiences and media.

Ebtisam Abdulaziz is an artist, writer and curator from the UAE

Sara Abdulla is the Co-founder of the collective in narrative and the Bahraini representative for the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Gulf Chapter.