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).
