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José Maceda was a composer, pianist and ethnomusicologist who dedicated his life to the understanding and popularisation of Filipino traditional music.

Eva Meyer-Keller is a versatile performance artist whose work often emerges from a point of transition between visual and performing arts.

Choreographer and dancer Radouan Mriziga’s performances explore the relationship between movement, construction and composition. 

In the 9th Sharjah Biennial, selections of poetry by Adele NeJame were exhibited alongside paintings of Hawaiian flowers by her daughter, the artist Melissa Chimera.

Shinichiro Ogata is a designer and restaurateur who heads up his own small design company called Simplicity.

Chika Okeke-Agulu specialises in indigenous, modern and contemporary African and African Disapora art history and theory.

Kyohei Sakaguchi is an artist and architect, who works with used and discarded materials to create mobile structures.

The painting and sculpture of Abdulraheem Salim reflect a fascination with both figurative and abstract forms and depict the artist’s longstanding engagement with Emirati culture and the history of the Arabian Gulf.

Composer and musician Keiichiro Shibuya has created musical works for live performances, films and sound installations and established the music label ATAK.

Mark Teh is a director, curator and researcher whose diverse projects are engaged with issues of history, memory and urban contexts.

Pianist Tarek Yamani has dedicated himself to exploring relationships between African American jazz and classical Arabic music.

Abdulrahman Zainal expresses his ethical and political vision in his work, aiming not to depict his subject matter realistically but rather to portray its narrative context.

Rami Zeidan is the Vice President of Partnerships at Anghami, where he is responsible for building strategic opportunities across content, technology and data functions.