Jumanah Abbas

Architect, writer and curator

Omniya Abdel Barr

Architect

Hala Abdel Malak

Design critic, curator, educator, researcher and strategist

Rand Abdul Jabbar

Artist and writer

Sawsan Abou Zainedin

Architect and urban development planner

Sarah Abu Abdallah

Artist

Saphiya Abu Al-Maati

Architect and researcher

Etel Adnan

Artist & writer

Mina Akhavan

Researcher

Mona Al Jadir

Architectural Designer

Asaiel Al Saeed

Architect

Munira Al Sayegh

Curator

Ahmed AlAqra

Architect, artist, and researcher

Mays Albaik

Artist

Maya Allison

Executive Director of The NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery and Chief Curator at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD)

Meitha Almazrooei

Curator and Critic, Architecture

Atef Alshehri

Architect and urbanist

Aseel AlYaqoub

Writer and curator

Yahya Amqassim

Poet

Ziad Antar

Artist

Nadim Asfar

Artist

Carine Assaf

Researcher

Mouna Atassi

Art Collector, Patron and founder of Atassi Foundation

Kader Attia

Artist

Vartan Avakian

Artist

Ariella Aisha Azoulay

Curator, filmmaker, and professor

Sussan Babaie

Art historian, The Courtauld Institute of Art

Rayya Badran

Writer

Marc Baroud

Inter-disciplinary designer.

Christine Barthe

Head of Photographic Collections Heritage - Musée du Quai Branly

Patrick Baz

Artist

Rana Beiruti

Curator, founder / director of platform

Hicham Bouzid

Cultural practitioner and independent curator

Christian Briend

Curator

Gregory Buchakjian

Art historian, PhD

Hamed Bukhamseen

Architect and educator

Valérie Cachard

Literary

Isabelle Cahn

Chief Curator at Musée D'Orsay, Paris

Waddah Charara

Writer, journalist, translator & professor of sociology

Yasmine Chemali

Head of Collections at Sursock Museum

Yves Chevrefiles-Desbiolles

Head of Collections

Chaouki Choukini

Sculptor

Marco Costantini

Art historian, exhibition curator and deputy director of mudac

Clémence Cottard Hachem

Co-Director & Head of Collections at the Arab Image Foundation

Ambra D'Antone

Associate Lecturer (The Courtauld Institute of Art and Tate Modern), PhD Student

Gaby Daher

Art Dealer

Noëmi Daucé

Curator in charge of Archeology at Agence France-Muséums

Catherine David

Art curator, critic and historian

Guillaume de Sardes

Photographer, writer, art curator & filmmaker

Lav Diaz

Filmmaker

Amandine d'Azevedo

Associate Professor, Film and Audiovisual Studies

Cristiana de Marchi

Artist, curator and poet

Dominique Eddé

Writer, Editor

Galila El Kadi

Researcher and professor

Fouad Elkoury

Photographer

Nathalie Ernoult

Curator

Octavian Esanu

Curator of AUB Art Galleries

Swarnavel Eswaran

Associate Professor, English and the School of Journalism

Eleftheria Exarchou

Civil engineer

Patricia Falguieres

Historian

Hannah Feldman

Associate Professor of Art History at Northwestern University

Rico Franses

Art historian

Fabienne Fravalo

Curator in charge of the Decorative Arts Collection at the Fondation Gandur pour l'Art

Laure Ghorayeb

Painter

Rohit Goel

Writer, editor, BICAR

Charbel Habre

Artist & musician

Mazen Haidar

Architect

Golan Haji

Poet, essayist and translator

Ayla Hibri

Photographer

Curator

Yasmin Huleileh

artist, music curator, co-founder / Fana collective

Victor Hundsbuckler

Curator, Louvre Museum

Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim

Artist

Rose Issa

Curator, writer and producer

Julie Jones

Curator

Kevin Jones

Writer

Lamia Joreige

Artist

Nour Joudah

Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in geography

Yasmina Jraissati

Philosophy & cognitive sciences

Dr Carine Juvin

Curator in the department of Islamic Arts, Musée du Louvre

Ali Ismail Karimi

Architect, co-founder 'Civil Architecture'

Houda Kassatly

Photographer

Hélène Kessous

Social Anthropology and Ethnology, PhD

Manal Khader

Journalist, actress, curator

Amal Khalaf

Curator

Mona Khazindar

Art Historian

Yasmine Kherfi

Sociologist

Kristine Khouri

Researcher, Writer, Curator

Bernard Khoury

Architect

Adel Khozam

Poet

Simone Klein

Global Print Sales Director at Magnum Photos

Brigitte Koyoma-Richard

Specialist in Japanese Culture and Prints

Sophie Krebs

Curator

Curator

Balsam Madi

Architect and urbanist

Christine Mady

Associate professor in architecture, urban design and urban planning

Cherine Magrabi Tayeb

Founder and curator, House of Today

Charif Majdalani

Writer

Aline Manoukian

Photographer

Eva Markovits

Film critic for Cahiers du cinéma

Salwa Mikdadi

Professor of Practice of Art History, NYUAD

Hala Moubarak

Interior designer

Fateh Moudarres

Artist

Rabih Mroue

Theatre director, actor, visual artist and playwright

Majd Murad

Architect

Sir Peter Murray

Founder, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Fumio Nanjo

Curator and Art historian, director of Mori Art Museum (Tokyo)

Issam Nassar

Historian and Professor at Illinois State University

Lévon Nordiguian

Director of the Photographic Library at Saint Joseph University

Dr. Souraya Noujaim

Scientific, Curatorial & Collections Management Director at Louvre Abu Dhabi

François Nour

Writer and architect

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Art curator, critic and historian

Curatorial Research Fellow at Museum of East Asian Art, Cologne

Venetia Porter

Curator

Hareth Ramzi

Visual artist and Photographer

Marwan Rechmaoui

Artist

Jeanne Rethacker

Senior Curatorial Assistant, Louvre Abu Dhabi

Oliver Rohe

Author

Nayla Romanos Iliya

Artist

Julien Rousseau

Curator, Head of the Asian Collections

Frank Ruda

Philosopher

Mahdi Sabbagh

Architect, urbanist and editor

Walid Sadek

Artist, Author

Ghassan Salhab

Screenwriter, Film Director and Producer

Xavier Salmon

Director, Louvre Museum

Hanadi Samhan

Urban practitioner

Ghada Sayegh

Professor

Dr Nada Shabout

Art history professor, University of North Texas (US)

Stephen Sheehi

Author

Dima Srouji

Architect and visual artist

Némésis Srour

Social Anthropology and Ethnology, PhD

Salah Stétié

Poet and Writer

Isaac Sullivan

Artist

Dr Maha Azize Sultan

Professor of Art History & Art Critic

Faysal Tabbarah

Co-founder 'Architecture + Other Things', Associate Dean & Associate Professor of Architecture, American University of Sharjah

Rayyane Tabet

Artist

Nayla Tamraz

Writer, Curator, Researcher and Professor

Mahmud Tantoush

Researcher and lecturer

Researcher

Ben Tosland

Architectural historian

Jalal Toufic

Thinker, writer and artist

Pieter Van den Broeck

Professor, spatial planning and sustainable development

Selvaraj Velayutham

Associate Professor, Macquarie School of Social Sciences

Vivek Vilasini

Artist

Ophélie Wiel

Author and Specialist in Indian Cinema

Kaelen Wilson-Goldie

Art critic

Mohsen Yammine

Collector

Inass Yassin

Artist and curator

Ala Younis

Artist

Akram Zaatari

Artist, co-founder of the Arab Image Foundation