People

Adrian Lahoud is an architect, urban designer and researcher as well as Dean of the School of Architecture at the Royal College of Art, London, and co-chair of the Rights of Future Generations Working Group.

Audiovisual artist Laith Demashqieh explores the boundaries between sanity and insanity in unrenovated downtown Amman and works with sound as a medium and object of study, independent of text and image.

An independent curator and researcher, Fatima-Zahra Lakrissa is interested in the layered subjectivities of European modern art history and the construction of Moroccan modernism.

Before joining the Africa Institute in Sharjah in 2022, Professor Lalu was a founding director of the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa (2008–2019).

Nikolaj Larsen uses a variety of materials and media to create work with a deeply humanistic engagement at its core.

In his research-oriented curatorial work, Renan Laru-an studies ‘insufficient’ and ‘subtracted’ images and subjects at the juncture of development and integration projects.

As an instrumentalist with his own ensemble, Yusef Lateef has performed extensively in concert halls and at colleges and music festivals throughout the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Russia, Japan and Africa, often conducting master classes and symposia in conjunction with his performances.

Quinn Latimer is a poet and critic from California whose work often explores the feminist economies of writing, reading and image production.

Standish Lawder is internationally recognized for his work in avant-garde filmmaking.

Often working with open-ended scenarios of everyday interactions, Lee Mingwei creates participatory installations where strangers can explore issues of trust, intimacy and self-awareness.

From her earliest works, Jac Leirner has worked with found objects, ready-mades and everyday detritus.