Speakers

  • Muhammad al-Khalil, Associate Professor of Arabic Language, NYUAD
  • Brad Bauer, Head of Archives and Special Collections and Associate Academic Librarian, NYU Abu Dhabi
  • Robert Brodschneider, Researcher, Institute of Biology, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, current editor of Bee World
  • Raphael Cormack, Assistant Professor of Arabic, Durham University
  • Clare Davies, Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Middle East, North Africa, and Turkey, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
  • Joy Amina Garnett, Artist and Writer, Art Director, Evergreen Review
  • Anthony Gorman, Senior Lecturer in Modern Middle Eastern History at the University of Edinburgh. 
  • May Hawas, Lecturer in World Literature, and Valerie Eliot Fellow in English at Newnham College, Cambridge, UK
  • Mostafa Heddaya, PhD candidate at Princeton in the Department of Art and Archaeology
  • Daniel Lowe, Curator, Arabic Collections, British Library
  • Robin Ostle, Emeritus Research Fellow and Lecturer in Oriental Studies, St. John’s College, Oxford University
  • Deborah Starr, Professor of Modern Arabic and Hebrew Literature and Film, Cornell University