Dima Srouji is a Palestinian architect and artist. Her work, focused on the MENASA region, deals with critical cartography and alternative architectural narratives. She has exhibited at Art Dubai, the Amman and Dubai Design Weeks, the Qattan Foundation, and the Third Line Gallery Library in Dubai. Srouji was recently a visiting assistant professor at the American University of Sharjah.

Dirar Kalash is a musician and sound artist whose work spans a wide range of musical and sonic practices. His performative and compositional approach challenges the binary logic of new/old and west/east oppositions as tools of cultural hegemony.

Silvia Truini is an archaeologist and anthropologist, currently pursuing a PhD at the universities of Exeter and Southampton. Her research covers archaeological theory, decolonial studies, and anthropologies of the future.

Nadia Abu El-Haj is professor of anthropology at Barnard College and Columbia University, and co-director of the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia. She wrote the books Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society (University of Chicago Press, 2001), and The Genealogical Science: Genetics, The Origins of the Jews, and The Politics of Epistemology (University of Chicago Press, 2012). She is currently working on a forthcoming monograph, provisionally titled The Ethics of Trauma: Moral Injury, Combat, and US Empire.