Nazan Maksudyan is Senior Researcher at the Centre Marc Bloch in the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funded research project, “Ottoman Auralities and the Eastern Mediterranean: Sound, Media and Power, 1789-1914” and a visiting professor at the FU Berlin. Her research mainly focuses on the social and cultural history of the late Ottoman Empire and […]

Ella Habiba Shohat is Professor of Cultural Studies at New York University. Her books include Colonialité et Ruptures: Écrits sur les Figures Juives Arabes; On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements: Selected Writings (Recipient of the Middle East Monitor Palestine Book Award);  Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices;  Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation;  Talking […]

In the aftermath of the 2006 Israeli war on Lebanon, Ghassan Halwani consciously withdrew the solo-artist-career, judging that there’s nothing to be told after witnessing such atrocities. He began a series of collaborations with local and Arab playwrights, filmmakers, musicians, writers. He also contributed to the foundation of several collective projects, among them Mansion and […]

A Black and Amazigh Indigenous scholar from Morocco, Brahim El Guabli is an Associate Professor of Arabic Studies and Comparative Literature at Williams College. His first book, entitled Moroccan Other-Archives: History and Citizenship after State Violence, was published by Fordham University Press in 2023. His forthcoming book is entitled Desert Imaginations: Saharanism and its Discontents. […]

Karachi LaJamia was founded in 2015 by artists Zahra Malkani and Shahana Rajani as a nomadic space moving outside the institution to collectively explore new radical pedagogies and art practices. Since 2015, they have facilitated a series of site-specific courses and collaborative research projects to explore the intersections of militarism, climate crisis, indigenous dispossession, and […]

Emrah Gökdemir is a visual and performance artist born in Antakya, Turkey. Since 2012 he has been working in the field of anthropology in collaboration with Yael Navaro from the University of Cambridge with a project on the city of Antakya.   He is one of the members of the Antakya Performative Collective founded in 2018. […]

Hera Büyüktaşcıyan is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice looks at identity, space, memory and time through poetics and politics of invisibility. In her sculptures, site specific interventions, drawings and films, the artist often references urban and local myths, as well as specific architectural structures as the foundation for her works by closely observing their genealogies […]

Banu Cennetoğlu is an artist based in Istanbul. Her practice incorporates methods of collecting and archiving, and enquires into the politics of the production, classification, and distribution of knowledge. In her cross-disciplinary practice, she contemplates the impossibility of giving form to absence and how the process of attempting to do so deepens our understanding of […]

Sara Farhan is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada. She works on medicine, science and technology in Iraq with a focus on professionalization, archives and archive keeping. She has published in the Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East; Journal of Middle Eastern Women’s Studies; […]

Omar Jabary Salamanca is a Research Fellow and Co-Director of the Observatory of the Arab and Muslim Worlds at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. His work focuses on uneven development, urban studies, political ecology and settler colonialism. He is also interested in archival practices of anti-colonial solidarity movements and visual histories of labor.