
Khaled Jarrar
Khaled is an artist and soldier in the Palestinian army based in Ramallah.
Dispatches:
Khaled's LadderTear Down the Wall
Projects:
No Man's Land
Rashad Salim

Khalid Albaih
Khalid is a Sudanese artist, political cartoonist, illustrator and a writer based in Doha, Qatar.
Dispatches:
We the PeopleProjects:
We the people
Yazan Khalili
Yazan is a multi-media artist based in Ramallah, Palestinian.
Projects:
Palestine USA
John Mireles
John is a photographer and traveler. When he's not driving his road-worn RV across the country, he resides in San Diego.
Dispatches:
Khaled's LadderProjects:
Neighbors
Arwa Al Naemi
Arwa is a Jeddah based artist from Saudi Arabia and co-founder of Pharan Studio.
Dispatches:
Phantom Punch
João Inada
João is a Brazilian documentary filmmaker and multimedia reporter based in Rio de Janeiro. He is a founding member of CULTURUNNERS broadcast team.
Projects:
Reframe Iran
Matteo Lonardi
Matteo is a photographer, journalist and filmmaker based in New York. He is a founding member of CULTURUNNERS broadcast team.
Projects:
Reframe Iran
Ava Ansari
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.
Dispatches:
Straight Out Among the Stars
Brian Zeegler
Brian is an American artist of Lebanese descent currently living and working in New York.

Darvish Fakhr
Darvish is an Iranian artist and a painter who grew up in the U.S. He lives and works in Brighton, UK.
Projects:
Flying Carpet
Azra Aksamija
Azra is Assistant Professor of the Arts at MIT's Art, Culture and Technology Program in Cambridge, MA.
Projects:
Yarn·Dex·Vous
Husam Al Sayed
Husam is a Saudi-based Palestinian filmmaker, musician and founding member of Telfaz 11. He currently lives in Jeddah.

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

Deitmar Offenhuber
Dietmar is Assistant Professor at Northeastern University in the departments of Public Policy and Art + Design.
Projects:
Menam Art Map
Henry Hemming
Henry is the a London based writer, journalist and founder of the Offscreen project.

Stephen Stapleton
Stephen is an artist, curator, and founding Director of Culturunners, Edge of Arabia and The Crossway Foundation.
Dispatches:
Gonzo ArabiaSymbolic Cities

Georgie Weedon
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 Morrissey
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 Huh
Carol is the first curator of Contemporary Art at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
Dispatches:
Symbolic Cities
Ziad Al Sayed
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 Mater
Ahmed is a Jeddah based Saudi Arabian artist, medical doctor and founder of Pharan Studio and Edge of Arabia.
Dispatches:
Symbolic CitiesProjects:
Symbolic Cities
Floor van de Velde
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 Silvester
Karina is an architect, artist, design researcher, creative thinker, and a maker.

Marko Peljhan
Marko is Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies: Art, Science, Technology, Performance, Digital Media, and Space Art, at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Projects:
Menam Art Map
Matthew Mazzotta
Matthew is a conceptual artist and lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s program Art, Culture and Technology (ACT).

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

Lara Baladi
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 Busby
Kate is a writer and artist currently living in Barcelona.

Sarah Abu-Abdullah
Sarah is an artist who grew up in Saudi Arabia currently pursuing her MA in Digital Media at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Dispatches:
Phantom PunchParallel Kingdom

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

Rashed AlShashai
Rashed is a visual artist and a high school art teacher living in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Dispatches:
Phantom PunchParallel Kingdom

Orkan Telhan
Orkan is Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design.
Projects:
A Now for Menam
John Steiner
John is a performer, songwriter and visual artist working in audio, sculpture, electronic media and design.
Projects:
Autoluminescence
Madeleine Gallagher
Madeleine is an interdisciplinary artist, technologist and educator at MIT.
Projects:
Autoluminescence
Nick Beauchamp
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.
Projects:
Menam Art Map
Zeinab Shadidi
Zeinab is a conceptual artist who lives and works in Tehran. She holds a MFA in sculpture from Yale school of art.

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

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

Anne Katrine Senstad
Anne Katrine Senstad is a multidisciplinary Norwegian artist who lives and works in New York.
Projects:
The Calligraphy Challenge
Felicia Castro
Felicia is a painter currently studying at New Mexico State University.

Peyman Shafieezadeh
Peyman is an artist living and working in Tehran, Iran.
Dispatches:
This is Just an ImageProjects:
This is Just an Image
Lila Nazemian
Lila is an independent curator and Special Projects Associate at Leila Heller Gallery in New York City.
Dispatches:
Straight Out Among the Stars
Sara Ouhaddou
Sara Ouhaddou is an artist and designer who lives and works between Paris and Morocco.
Dispatches:
Straight Out Among the StarsProjects:
Straight Out Among the Stars
Taysir Batniji
Taysir Batniji is an interdisciplinary visual artist who divides his time between France and Palestine.

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

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