Senan Abdelqader, born in Taibeh, a Palestinian village in northern Israel, studied architecture in Germany before returning to the Middle East where he runs a private architectural office and teaches in several universities.
Brian Ackley is a founding member of Bidoun magazine and currently pursuing a Masters in architecture at Columbia University in New York.
Born in Zaragoza, Spain, in 1972, Lara Almarcegui is an artist who lives and works in Rotterdam.
Issandr El Amrani is an independent journalist and analyst based in Cairo. He maintains a collaborative weblog on Arab politics and culture at www.arabist.net.
Yto Barrada is a photographer based in Tangier, and a founder and the director of the Cinémathèque de Tanger.
Deena Chalabi is a writer from London currently studying at the University of California at Berkeley.
Clare Davies was Associate Curator at the Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, before moving to New York in 2006 to pursue graduate studies as an Erwin Panofsky Fellow at the Institute of Fine Arts.
Saad Bashir Eskander is a Baghdad native and Director General of the Iraqi National Library and Archive.
Keller Easterling is an architect, urbanist and writer -- author of Enduring Innocence: global architecture and its political masquerades (MIT, 2005), among other books.
Kai Friese is a magazine editor based in New Delhi.
Mauricio Guillen is a Mexican artist living in London. He teaches at the Royal College of Art.
Born in Beirut in 1974, Makram el Kadi is a New York-based architect and partner at L.E.FT (www.leftish.net).
Architect George Katodrytis studied and taught at the Architectural Association in London before moving to the UAE where he is a professor at the American University of Sharjah (www.katodrytis.com).
Rem Koolhaas is a Dutch architect, former journalist and screenwriter, principal of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, and Professor in Practice at Harvard's Graduate School of Design.
L.E.FT is a New York-based architectural design partnership established in 2001 by Makram el Kadi, Ziad Jamaleddine and Naji Moujaes. Currently, L.E.FT is design architect for residential and cultural projects in New York, Beirut, Dubai and Turkey. www.leftish.net
Ursula Lindsey is a Cairo-based freelance journalist currently pursuing a Masters in Near Eastern Studies at New York University.
Armin Linke is a Milan-based photographer and filmmaker working on a progressively growing archive on various human activities and new natural and artificial landscapes.
Hugh Macleod is a British journalist living and working in Syria and Lebanon (www.hughmacleod.co.uk).
Philipp Misselwitz is an architect and urbanist and a founding member of the Berlin-based architectural research group Urban Catalyst.
Kevin Mitchell teaches architecture and design at the American University of Sharjah.
Celia Peterson and Richard Allenby-Pratt are commercial and reportage photographers based in Dubai (www.arabianeye.com).
Born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1982, Simona Schneider is a writer and photographer currently working at the Cinémathèque de Tanger in Morocco.
Susanne Schuricht is a Berlin-based artist who focuses on installations, video and photography. www.sushu.de
Erandi de Silva is a student at the Architectural Association in London, where her 2006 project 'Logopelago' was undertaken as part of Intermediate Unit 9's foray into Dubai.
Pelin Tan is an Istanbul writer focusing on space, politics, and locality in art and urbanism.
Fawwaz Traboulsi is a writer, and university professor in Beirut. His latest book is A History of Modern Lebanon (Pluto Press, London, 2007).
Stephan Trüby is an architect, theoretician, curator and since 2001 is Assistant Professor for Architectural Theory and Design at Stuttgart University's IGMA.
Nader Vossoughian is an independent critic and assistant professor of architecture at the New York Institute of Technology.
CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS
The Aga Khan Trust for Culture
Hossein Altafi
Polly Braden
Osama Dawod
Hadani Ditmars
Ahmad Hosni
Katarina Premfors
Solmaz Shahbazi
Solidere