People

Khaled is an artist and soldier in the Palestinian army based in Ramallah.

Rashad is an Iraqi German expeditionary artist living in London.

Khalid is a Sudanese artist, political cartoonist, illustrator and a writer based in Doha, Qatar.

Yazan is a multi-media artist based in Ramallah, Palestinian.

John is a photographer and traveler. When he's not driving his road-worn RV across the country, he resides in San Diego.

Arwa is a Jeddah based artist from Saudi Arabia and co-founder of Pharan Studio.

João is a Brazilian documentary filmmaker and multimedia reporter based in Rio de Janeiro. He is a founding member of CULTURUNNERS broadcast team.

Matteo is a photographer, journalist and filmmaker based in New York. He is a founding member of CULTURUNNERS broadcast team.

Ava is an artist, educator, and curator from Iran. She is the co-founder of The Back Room. She was a founding curator at CULTURUNNERS before joining the Arab American National Museum in Detroit.

Brian is an American artist of Lebanese descent currently living and working in New York.

Darvish is an Iranian artist and a painter who grew up in the U.S. He lives and works in Brighton, UK.

Azra is Assistant Professor of the Arts at MIT's Art, Culture and Technology Program in Cambridge, MA.

Husam is a Saudi-based Palestinian filmmaker, musician and founding member of Telfaz 11. He currently lives in Jeddah.

SALAR is a Detroit-based Iranian artist, electronic music composer and founding member of the Analog Room.

Dietmar is Assistant Professor at Northeastern University in the departments of Public Policy and Art + Design.

Henry is the a London based writer, journalist and founder of the Offscreen project.

Al is a London based conceptual artist and founder of the Offscreen Project.

Stephen is an artist, curator, and founding Director of Culturunners, Edge of Arabia and The Crossway Foundation.

Georgie is a British producer, film director and actress. She co-founded PROJECT ARIADNE to profile and champion women making theatre in conflict affected areas.

Chris is a founding member of the East London based branding & digital agency One Darnley Road. He has been working happily with Offscreen and Edge of Arabia since 2007.

Carol is the first curator of Contemporary Art at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.

Ziad is the co-founder of the Saudi Art Guide, an unprecedented and first of its kind guide to art and design discovery in Saudi Arabia.

Ahmed is a Jeddah based Saudi Arabian artist, medical doctor and founder of Pharan Studio and Edge of Arabia.

Floor is a Belgian born, South African cross-disciplinary artist and musician. She holds a BFA in Sculpture from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

Karina is an architect, artist, design researcher, creative thinker, and a maker.

Marko is Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies: Art, Science, Technology, Performance, Digital Media, and Space Art, at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Matthew is a conceptual artist and lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s program Art, Culture and Technology (ACT).

Daanish is a community organizer, advisor at the United Nations and founder of The Machine to be Another project.

Lara is an Egyptian-Lebanese artist. She has been a board member of the Arab Image Foundation since 1997 and founder of the artist residency Fenenin el Rehal in Egypt’s White Desert.

Kate is a writer and artist currently living in Barcelona.

Sarah is an artist who grew up in Saudi Arabia currently pursuing her MA in Digital Media at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Hazim is a New York based silkscreen artist and street vendor with a regular spot at 125th Street in Harlem.

Rashed is a visual artist and a high school art teacher living in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Ayman is a Jeddah based Palestinian artist.

Orkan is Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design.

John is a performer, songwriter and visual artist working in audio, sculpture, electronic media and design.

Madeleine is an interdisciplinary artist, technologist and educator at MIT.

Nick is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Northeastern University and a member of the core faculty of the NULab for Texts, Maps and Networks.

Zeinab is a conceptual artist who lives and works in Tehran. She holds a MFA in sculpture from Yale school of art.

Tara is a cultural arts professional who works with the Middle East, India, the United Kingdom and the United States.

John is a TV producer, content developer and cinematographer. He is the owner of Rosey Media.

Anne Katrine Senstad is a multidisciplinary Norwegian artist who lives and works in New York.

Felicia is a painter currently studying at New Mexico State University.

Peyman is an artist living and working in Tehran, Iran.

Lila is an independent curator and Special Projects Associate at Leila Heller Gallery in New York City.

Sara Ouhaddou is an artist and designer who lives and works between Paris and Morocco.

Taysir Batniji is an interdisciplinary visual artist who divides his time between France and Palestine.

Faisal is a Saudi born artist based in Bahrain. He is a founding artist of Edge of Arabia.

Foundland is an art, design and research collective, initiated in 2009 by Lauren Alexander and Ghalia Elsrakbi.