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Dr Zeina Maasri is a historian of art and design at the University of Bristol. She is the author of Cosmopolitan Radicalism: The Visual Politics of Beirut’s Global Sixties and Off the Wall: Political Posters of the Lebanese Civil War, and co-editor of Transnational Solidarity: Anticolonialism in the Global Sixties.

Sophie Demay is the co-founder of the design studio In the shade of a tree. Sophie is a graphic designer and educator. She has been involved in several alternative education projects and conducts research on pedagogy in art schools. She teaches at ENSAD Paris.

Erik Hartin is an artist, activist and researcher, and co-founder of the studio Not here to be liked. He specialises in researching and designing systems and practices that support collective and relational ways of working and is currently completing a practice-based PhD at the University of East Anglia.

Daniel Lowe is the British Library’s Curator of Arabic Collections working with both print and manuscript heritage. His curatorial projects include Comics and Cartoon Art from the Arab World (2017), Histories and Archives of Arabic Publishing (2021), Passports and Identity Documents in the Hands of Artists (2024-25), and Fighting to Be Heard (2025). He received Art Fund’s New Collecting Award in 2022.

Venetia Porter is former Senior Curator for Islamic and Contemporary Middle East art at the British Museum. Publications include Artists making books: poetry to politics (British Museum Press, 2023) and with Dina Matar (eds.), Archiving Gaza in the Present: Memory, Culture and Erasure (Saqi Books 2025).

Jana Traboulsi is a graphic designer, visual artist and scholar. Her research and practice explore the intersection of art and politics through drawing and publishing, with an interest in the history of the Arabic book. She is Assistant Professor at the American University of Beirut.

Maqam is a nomadic bookshop and online marketplace centred around the arts, culture, politics and history of the Arabic speaking world. We distribute books, curate shelves and create experiences for our community to gather in transit.

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