People

Safeya Alblooshi experiments with sound in the realms of manipulated field recordings, experimental composition and participatory performance.

Atteqa Ali’s work focuses on the use of historical references in art as well as collaborative and socially engaged art in the extended Middle East.

Mckie Alvarez is a musician, songwriter, dub-reggae producer, sound designer and DJ.

Manal Ataya is a museum professional with over 15 years of senior executive experience in museum development and cultural diplomacy.

Elissa Ayoub is a scholar and filmmaker who produces fiction and non-fiction films about the Middle East with a focus on women’s lives.

After studying French Literature and Film, choreographer and dancer, Nacera Belaza embraced dance as the medium through which she could best explore and express her aesthetic sensibilities.

Hicham Benohoud works in photography, focusing on objects from his surroundings and employing unique display strategies.

The work of sculptor Mohammed Abdullah Bulhiah, constructed in metal, wood and stone, consists of both abstract forms and sculptures of Emirati wildlife.

Alma Chaouachi is an art historian whose research focuses on a post-colonial approach and discourse on art across the MENA region and the Islamic world.

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

Art historian and artist Iftikhar Dadi is the John H. Burris Professor in the Department of History of Art and Director of the South Asia Program, and board member of the Institute for Comparative Modernities at Cornell University.

Catherine David is deputy director of the Musée national d’Art moderne (MNAM) and head of the Research and Globalisation department at the Centre Georges Pompidou.

Naminata Diabate’s work seeks to redefine how we understand specific forms of embodied agency in the neoliberal present in global Africa.

Alex Dika Seggerman investigates the intersection of Islam and modernism in art history, including archival research on modern Middle Eastern art movements.

Papy Ebotani has been a dancer for over fifteen years.