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Carla Chammas is an independent curator and advisor. She cofounded the CRG Gallery, New York in 1991 alongside Richard DesRoche and Glenn McMillan, hosting prominent artists from the Middle East to South America for twenty-seven years. She has worked with Christie's, New York (1984); Marisa del Re Gallery, Monte Carlo, and New York (1985–88); and Hirschl and Adler Modern, New York (1988–1990).

Rachel Dedman is a curator and writer based between Lebanon and the UK. Current and recent work includes exhibitions for Kettle's Yard, Cambridge; the Whitworth Museum, Manchester; Beirut Art Fair; the Tricycle Theatre, London; and the Jerusalem Show iX. For five years, Dedman was curator at the Palestinian Museum, Ramallah, where she developed three exhibitions and authored two books on the politics of Palestinian embroidery, textiles, and dress. Dedman is coeditor of polycephaly.net, and one third of Radio Earth Hold, a collective supported by the Serpentine Galleries, commissioning radio broadcasts from artists.

Dr. Omar Kholeif is an author, curator, broadcaster, cultural historian, and Director of Collections and Senior Curator at Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE. They have curated more than 70 exhibitions and authored or co-authored more than 40 books on contemporary art. Dr. Kholeif is the founder of artPost21, a cultural agency that supports creative practices at the nexus of art and social justice. Their notable titles include You Are Here: Art After the Internet; Goodbye, World! Looking at Art in the Digital Age; In the Heart of Another Country; and Internet_Art: From the Birth of the Web to the Rise of NFTs.

Christine Tohmé is the Founding Director of Ashkal Alwan, the Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts, a non-profit organization established in 1993. Tohmé curated Sharjah Biennial 13: Tamawuj (2017), and is on the boards of Marsa, a sexual health center in Beirut that provides specialized medical services for at-risk youth and marginalized communities, and SAHA, an association in Istanbul that supports contemporary art from Turkey. Tohmé has received the UNESCO-Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture (2018); the CCS Bard Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence (2015) and a Prince Claus Award (2006), given in recognition of her achievements in supporting local art production and criticism.