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

Chloe-Kate Abel

MA student of Curating Cultures (Middle Eastern and African Art)

Aude Abou Nasr

Multidisciplinary Artist and Illustrator

Sawsan Abou Zainedin

Architect and urban development planner

Azza Aboualam

Architect and Curator

Sarah Abu Abdallah

Artist

Saphiya Abu Al-Maati

Architect and researcher

Nadi Abusaada

Assistant Professor in Architecture

Etel Adnan

Artist & writer

Rizwan Ahmad

Curator and Researcher

Mina Akhavan

Researcher

Sarah Al Abdali

Artist and curator

Wesam Al Asali

Assistant Professor, Architect, Researcher

Mona Al Jadir

Architectural Designer

Ulrike Al Khamis

Director & CEO of Aga Khan Museum in Toronto

Fatma Al Mahmoud

Managing partner at Hamzat Wasl Studio

Shamsa Al Nahyan

Curator and BA student of Creative Arts and Cultural Industries

Hoor Al Qasimi

President and Director of Sharjah Art Foundation

Salem Faisal Al Qassimi

Multidisciplinary Graphic Designer, Educator, Entrepreneur

Abdullah Al Saadi

Artist

Asaiel Al Saeed

Architect

Munira Al Sayegh

Curator

Noura Al Sayeh-Holtrop

Architect, Curator

Fatma Ebrahim Al Sehlawi

Architect, urbanist, and beekeeper

Islamic environmental ethicist, farmer, and textile artist

Senior production officer at Louvre Abu Dhabi

Abdullah Al-Ghathami

Literary critic

Asmaa Al-Issa

Artist

Art Advisor & Consultant

Curator

Sarah Saad Alajami

PhD Candidate

Ahmed AlAqra

Architect, artist, and researcher

Curator

Mays Albaik

Artist

Manal AlDowayan

Artist

Art critic and scholar

Maya Allison

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

Moza Almatrooshi

Artist

Meitha Almazrooei

Curator and Critic, Architecture

Rashed Almulla

Independent Urban Researcher, Founder of MABANI, Co-founder of MamarLab

Basma Alshathry

Curator

Atef Alshehri

Architect and urbanist

Aseel AlYaqoub

Writer and curator

Yahya Amqassim

Poet

Ziad Antar

Artist

Nisa Ari

Associate Professor of Art History

Nadim Asfar

Artist

Abdulaziz Ashour

Artist, writer and arts administrator

Carine Assaf

Researcher

Mouna Atassi

Art Collector, Patron and founder of Atassi Foundation

Kader Attia

Artist

Vartan Avakian

Artist

Myrna Ayad

Writer

Ariella Aisha Azoulay

Curator, filmmaker, and professor

Abdul Rahman Azzam

Author

Khaled Azzam

Director of The Prince’s School of Traditional Arts, Architect

Sussan Babaie

Art historian, The Courtauld Institute of Art

Bilal Badat

Archaeologist and Art Historian

Rayya Badran

Writer

Samira Badran

Visual Artist

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

Nadine Bekdache

Designer, Urbanist, Co-founder of Public Works Studio

El Mehdi Belyasmine

Architect, Designer, founder of Belyas.Co

Architect, Visual Artist

Alia Bengana

Architect, Teacher, Author

Ritika Biswas

Artist

Elika Blake

Arts Professional

Iwona Blazwick

Art critic and lecturer

Magda Bou Dagher Kharrat

Forest and Biodiversity Conservation Researcher

Georges Boustany

Photo collector

Hicham Bouzid

Cultural practitioner and independent curator

Dimitri Brand

Co-Founder and Director of Built Projects at Holesum Studio

Christian Briend

Curator

Gregory Buchakjian

Art historian, PhD

Hamed Bukhamseen

Architect and educator

Sara bin Safwan

Curator

Valérie Cachard

Literary

Isabelle Cahn

Chief Curator at Musée D'Orsay, Paris

Product and Jewelry Designer

Waddah Charara

Writer, journalist, translator & professor of sociology

Rabia Charef

Architect, Researcher, Consultant

Yasmine Chemali

Director, Centre de la photographie de Mougins

Joanna Chevalier

Curator & Art Advisor

Yves Chevrefiles-Desbiolles

Head of Collections

Amy Chiniara

Graphic Designer and Illustrator

Mohamed Choucair

Multidisciplinary Artist

Chaouki Choukini

Sculptor

Marco Costantini

Art historian, exhibition curator and director of mudac

Clémence Cottard Hachem

Artistic director, BeMA (Beirut Museum of Art)

Ambra D'Antone

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

Adib Dada

Environmental Activist and Architect

Gaby Daher

Art Dealer

Leila Darwish

Community Organizer, Bioremediation Educator, Author, Disaster Response and Recovery Worker

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

Architect

Amandine d'Azevedo

Associate Professor, Film and Audiovisual Studies

Cristiana de Marchi

Artist, curator and poet

Heather Ecker

Scholar, Curator & Owner of Viridian Projects, LLC

Dominique Eddé

Writer, Editor

Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh

Artist

Galila El Kadi

Researcher and professor

Ashton Eleazer

Writer

Fouad Elkoury

Photographer

Kit Elsworth

Associate and Building Performance Specialist at KieranTimberlake

Karim Emile Bitar

Associate Professor and Editor

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

Farhad Farjam

Chairman and CEO of Farbro Group, Founder of the Farjam Foundation

Hannah Feldman

Associate Professor of Art History at Northwestern University

Mohammad Filfilan

Visual Arts Researcher

Rico Franses

Art historian

Fabienne Fravalo

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

Flavia Frigeri

Art historian, PhD

Philippe Garnier

Architect, Researcher

Kim Ghattas

Middle East Expert, Author, Journalist

Laure Ghorayeb

Painter

Nada Ghosn

Writer, translator, and journalist

Rohit Goel

Writer, editor, BICAR

Huma Gupta

Assistant Professor of Architecture

Charbel Habre

Artist & musician

Mazen Haidar

Architect

Golan Haji

Poet, essayist and translator

Visual artist, Interior Designer, Professor

Architect, Author

Ayla Hibri

Photographer

Anna Hiddleston-Galloni

Curator

Yasmin Huleileh

artist, music curator, co-founder / Fana collective

Victor Hundsbuckler

Curator, Louvre Museum

Professor, Researcher, Specialist in Mediterranean Architectural Heritage

Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim

Artist

Rose Issa

Curator, writer and producer

Elisa Iturbe

Assistant Professor of Architecture

Daniel Jacobs

Instructional Assistant Professor in Architecture

Architect, Artist

Co-founder of L.E.FT Architects, Assistant Professor

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

Rhea Kahale

Biodiversity Conservation and Management expert

Safa Kamran

MA student of History

Structural Engineer, Professor

Ali Ismail Karimi

Architect, co-founder 'Civil Architecture'

Houda Kassatly

Photographer

Antonis Kentonis

Visual Artist, Art Historian, and Collector

Hélène Kessous

Social Anthropology and Ethnology, PhD

Manal Khader

Journalist, actress, curator

Amal Khalaf

Curator

Lina Khatib

Middle East Cultural Expert

Munira Khayyat

Anthropologist

Mona Khazindar

Art Historian

Yasmine Kherfi

Sociologist

Kristine Khouri

Researcher, Writer, Curator

Bernard Khoury

Architect

Adel Khozam

Poet

Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Arts Singapore

Simone Klein

Global Print Sales Director at Magnum Photos

Brigitte Koyoma-Richard

Specialist in Japanese Culture and Prints

Sophie Krebs

Curator

Beatrice Leanza

Curator, Museum Director, Critic

Curator

Carine Chelhot Lemyre

Writer and Historian

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

Ahmad Makia

Geographer, author and editor

Aline Manoukian

Photographer

Eva Markovits

Film critic for Cahiers du cinéma

Youmna Melhem Chamieh

Writer and Editor

Ute Meta Bauer

Curator

Salwa Mikdadi

Professor of Practice of Art History, NYUAD

Kevin Mitchell

Professor of Architecture

Jamil Molaeb

Artist

Ribal Molaeb

Artist

Architect, Teacher

Writer

Natasha Morris

Lecturer in Islamic Arts

Hala Moubarak

Interior designer

Fateh Moudarres

Artist

Architect

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

Nadine Nour el Din

Art Historian

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Art curator, critic and historian

Curatorial Research Fellow at Museum of East Asian Art, Cologne

Venetia Porter

Curator

Associate Curator at the Aga Khan Museum

Professor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT

Architect, Professor

Lina Ramadan

Curator and Writer

Hareth Ramzi

Visual artist and Photographer

Marwan Rechmaoui

Artist

Jeanne Rethacker

Senior Curatorial Assistant, Louvre Abu Dhabi

Oliver Rohe

Author

Nayla Romanos Iliya

Artist

Clara Rose Virginia Ewert

Postgraduate student of the History of Art and Architecture

Architect, Associate Lecturer, Researcher

Julien Rousseau

Curator, Head of the Asian Collections

Frank Ruda

Philosopher

Mahdi Sabbagh

Architect, urbanist and editor

Walid Sadek

Artist, Author

Architect, Co-founder of Public Works Studio

Ghassan Salhab

Screenwriter, Film Director and Producer

Xavier Salmon

Director, Louvre Museum

Hanadi Samhan

Urban practitioner

Ghada Sayegh

Professor

Kirsten Scheid

Professor of Anthropology & Art Studies

Dr Nada Shabout

Art history professor, University of North Texas (US)

Suparna Shankaranand Natesan

MA student of Curating Cultures

Nour Shantout

Artist and Researcher

Stephen Sheehi

Author

Sarah Sinno

Environmental Advocate, Researcher, and Founder of the Earth Preservation Project

Founding Director of Khatt Foundation and Khatt Books publishers

Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi

Columnist, Researcher and Founder of Barjeel Art Foundation

Artist, Architect

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

Ioana Iuna Șerban

curator at MARe/Museum of Recent Art

Faysal Tabbarah

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

Rayyane Tabet

Artist

Architect

Nayla Tamraz

Writer, Curator, Researcher and Professor

Mahmud Tantoush

Researcher and lecturer

Ahmed Rashid Thani

Writer

Architect, Photographer

Researcher

Ben Tosland

Architectural historian

Jalal Toufic

Thinker, writer and artist

Rojda Tuğrul

Artist and Researcher

Brittany Utting

Assistant Professor of Architecture

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

Badr Zabarah

Artist, Architect and Exhibition designer

Sary Zananiri

Cultural producer and theorist

Nour Al Huda Zaynab Schröter

MA student of Curating Cultures (Islamic Art History)

Dr. Rami Zurayk

Professor of Ecosystem Management