People

Lagash seeks to add a new dimension to Oriental music, fascinating audiences with complex and seductive melodies, melancholy harmonies, surprising rhythms and great precision.

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.

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).

Heiba Lamara is Assistant Editor of OOMK Zine and a founding member of Rabbits Road Press, a community focused Risograph studio in East London.

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.

French-Colombian visual artist and filmmaker Laura Huertas Millán blends the cinematic with critical and alternative ethnographies, presenting viewers with a unique form of speculative fiction that explores subjectivity and history.

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

Le Trio Joubran was formed by three brothers from Palestine who are descended from four generations of oud makers and players.

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.