Artist Shayma Aziz Shayma Aziz is a visual artist, whose work combines traditional fine arts technicality with experimental media practices, focussing particularly on painting, sculpture, interdisciplinary projects
Artist Maureen de Jong Maureen de Jong is a food and performance artist specializing in inter culinary exchange, personal food heritage and how both can be a means
Artist Arita Baaijens Arita Baaijens is a Dutch explorer, biologist and writer. She is forever curious about the world and explores both physical landscapes and mindscapes, which
Artist Fazle Shairmahomed Fazle Shairmahomed is a performance artist and dancer, who graduated in anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies/Arabic. He mainly creates decolonizing rituals, through which he
Artist Merlijn Twaalfhoven Let’s bring an artist mindset to the most pressing and complex societal challenges. This is the mission of Merlijn Twaalfhoven, composer and artistic entrepreneur.
Artist Rana Ghavami Rana Ghavami (1984) has been teaching design education since 2013 and is currently conducting research for ArtEZ University of the Arts. Parallel to this,
Artist Yallah! Yallah! DJ collective Yallah! Yallah! plays modern dance music from an area as broad as Iran to Morocco. Palestinan hiphop, speeddabke from Lebanon, reggaeton from
Artist Samira’s Blues Samira Dainan explores her roots and celebrates the healing power of music with Samira’s Blues. Her research into her Arabic, Berber and African heritage
Artist Lina Mounzer Lina Mounzer is an essayist, fiction writer and translator living in Beirut. Her essays and fiction have appeared in The Paris Review, Literary Hub,