People

Joachim Hamou is an artist making video, performance and installation works focused on social issues.

Hana Makki is a filmmaker of Saudi Arabian, Yemeni and British decent, who grew up in Sana’a, Abu Dhabi and Sheffield, and studied Literature at Goldsmiths College in London.

Amira Hanafi has worked in diverse capacities in the cultural field for over 15 years as an artist, writer, teacher, curator and arts administrator.

Poet and writer, Nathalie Handal is a Visiting Associate Professor of Practice in Literature and Creative Writing at NYU Abu Dhabi. Her poetry draws on her experiences of dislocation, home, travel and exile.

Archana Hande reflects on the nuances of growing up in the shadow of colonialism in India and the reproduction of power through industrialisation. Raised in Rourkela—an industrialist township in post-independence India—she began to question early how one understands oneself in a postcolonial schema.

A prolific writer and curator, Hou Hanru is currently the Artistic Director of MAXXI (National Museum of 21st Century Arts), Rome.

Working with drawing, painting, graphic design, video and sculpture, Hazem Harb creates installations that highlight issues of war, loss, trauma, human vulnerability and global instability.

Elizabeth Harney’s cross-disciplinary scholarship documents, analyses and publicises the work of artists who have been active in Africa and its diaspora since the beginning of the twentieth century.

The work of N.S. Harsha embraces painting, installation, site-specific and community projects. Communicating narratives of everyday life, his work combines an eclectic range of images and iconography taken from his homeland of India and the wider world beyond.

Angela Harutyunyan is an art historian and curator. Between 2009 and 2010, she was Assistant Professor and Art Programme Director at the American University in Cairo.

John Harvey is a multidisciplinary artist of Torres Strait Island (Saibai Island) and English descent. A writer, director and producer, he works in theatre, visual art and film.

Maj Hasager is a Danish artist currently based in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Suha Hasan’s research explores obscure histories, material conditions and environmental impacts connected to the built environment, specifically archaeological and heritage sites.