Nadia Christidi is an academic and arts practitioner. Her research explores how cities such as Dubai and Los Angeles, which face water supply challenges, imagine and prepare for the future of water. She was a TBA-21 Academy Ocean Fellow, a Rasikbhai L. Meswani Fellow for Water Solutions at MIT’s Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab and an Art Jameel Arts Research and Writing Resident. Christidi works at the intersection of art, science and policy, producing public programming around her research to engage diverse audiences. Her work and programmes have been presented at Beirut Art Center, SALT Galata, SALT Ulus, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Jameel Arts Centre, the Al Sidr Environmental Film Festival and Ocean Space, Venice. The artist holds a PhD in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society from MIT, and she is a member of the Swiss National Science Foundation–funded project Governing through Design.
"Sary Moussa is a musician, sound designer, producer and engineer who has been active in the Beirut experimental and underground music scene since 2008. His work ranges from drone-driven music to dance floor electronica, with a focus on generative sound design and sonic textures.
He released his first full-length album, ‘Issrar’, in 2014 on Ruptured under the moniker ‘radiokvm’ and ‘Imbalance’ in 2020 on Other People as Sary Moussa.
In addition to his solo work, Moussa frequently collaborates with local and regional artists from various disciplines. He composed music for theatre, dance and lecture performances as well as films and art installations. "
Joseph Kai is a Lebanese illustrator and comic author based in Paris who experiments with realistic, speculative and self-fiction in the medium of comics. His debut graphic novel, L’Intranquille (Casterman, 2021), was published in English by Street Noise Books under the title Restless. The story explores the anxieties, desires and dreams of Samar, an artist living in Lebanon during one of the country’s most turbulent times. Since 2010, Kai has been a member of the collective Samandal Comics as a contributor, and later, as editor-in-chief for Geography, 3000 and Cutes (2022). Kai has also participated in comic festivals around the world; he exhibited his works at Institut du monde arabe in Paris and held his first solo exhibition, I Never Asked to Be So Sad and So Sexy, at TWXS in Brussels.