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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 de May 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.

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 in 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). 





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