Tarek Abou El Fetouh is Director of Performance and Senior Curator at Sharjah Art Foundation.

Ruanne Abou-Rahme work together with Basel Abbas across a range of sound, image, installation and performance practices.

Hisham Al Madhloum is a founding member of the Emirates Fine Arts Society, Emirates Photography Society and Al Marsam Al Hor studio at the UAE University.

Abdullah Al Owais is the Chairman of the Department of Culture and Information, Sharjah, and member of the Executive Council of the Emirate of Sharjah.

Hoor Al Qasimi, President and Director of Sharjah Art Foundation, established the Foundation in 2009 as a catalyst and advocate for the arts in Sharjah, in the region and around the world.

Abdullah Al Saadi’s work ranges from painting, drawing and the creation of lengthy artists’ notebooks to the collection and systematic categorisation of found objects and the invention of new alphabets.

Rich in historical references as well as traditional and modern motifs from both Eastern and Western art, Khadim Ali’s drawings and paintings tell stories about the loss of his own cultural heritage in Bamiyan, Afghanistan.

Working within the realm of sound, Tarek Atoui is an artist and composer who explores new methods of collaboration and production.

A visual artist and filmmaker, Eric Baudelaire’s recent projects have explored the possibility
 of self-invention and political imagining.

CAMP is a collaborative studio founded in Mumbai in 2007 by Ashok Sukumaran and Shaina Anand.

Doryun Chong is Chief Curator of M+, a museum for visual culture scheduled to open in 2017 in Hong Kong

Nikhil Chopra’s artistic practice draws upon approaches associated with theatre, portraiture, landscape drawing, sculpture and installation to chronicle the world through live performance.

Abraham Cruzvillegas is an artist and founder of La Galería de Comercio, a non-profit initiative that presents public art projects on the streets.

Ntone Edjabe is founder and Editor-in-Chief of Chimurenga, a journal and platform for editorial and curatorial activities.

Fouad Elkoury is a photographer and a video artist.