Ban Kattan is a research associate at Haraka: Experimental Lab for Arab Art and Social Thought. Her areas of research interest cover issues of human and institutional capacity building, sustainable development, gender equality, as well as Arab art and culture.
Ban holds a BSc in business administration from the American University of Sharjah, a BA in gender and women studies from York University, Canada, and an MA in development studies from York University focusing on organizational capacity building via knowledge transfer. Ban specializes in translation practices for art and culture organizations in the Middle East, and is a certified translator by the Association of Translators and Interpreters of Ontario, Canada.