Professor Dr. Omar Kholeif is an award-winning author, artist, curator, and cultural historian, and director of collections and senior curator at Sharjah Art Foundation, Govt. of Sharjah, UAE. Co-director and founder of the nonprofit artPost21, Kholeif is also a visiting professor in critical race, fine art, and creative industries at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art Research Unit, Teesside University, UK. Recent books include Nil Yalter: Circular Tension (2024), Otobong Nkanga: Stitched Dreams (2024), and Internet_Art: From the Birth of the Web to the Rise of NFTs (2023).

Since 2005, Dr. Brigitte Caland has managed the estate of her mother Huguette Caland (1931-2019) and curated or co-curated several exhibitions of her work. For several years, she taught in the Arabic and Near Eastern languages department at the American University of Beirut (AUB).