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Homi K. Bhabha is the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities in the Department of English, Director of the Mahindra Humanities Center, and Senior Advisor on the Humanities to the President and Provost at Harvard University. Professor Bhabha was born in India and educated at the University of Bombay and then at the University of Oxford. He is considered one of the most prominent and influential figures in the fields of postcolonial studies and cultural theory and his scholarly interests include cultural migration, globalization and human rights.read more
Okwui Enwezor is a curator, critic, and poet, and Dean of Academic Affairs and Senior Vice President at the San Francisco Art Institute, Adjunct Curator at the International Center of Photography in New York, and Artistic Director of the Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla, Spain.read more
Homa Farjadi is a principal of Farjadi Architects, London, and Professor in Practice of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a graduate of Tehran University and the Architectural Association (AA) Graduate School of Architecture. Professor Farjadi taught at the AA as a Diploma School unit master (1980-87), at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design (1989-1997), at Yale University where she held Eero Saarinen and Bishop Visiting Professorship Chairs, and at the University of Pennsylvania where she held the Bruce Graham Chair.read more
Shirazeh Houshiary is an Iranian artist based in London who works in sculpture, painting, installations, film, and animation. One of the key figures of young British sculptors who emerged in the early 1980s, she remains at the forefront of contemporary art. Professor Houshiary was born and raised in Iran, and moved to London in 1974; she studied at the Chelsea School of Art (1976-1979) and was Junior Fellow at Cardiff College of Art (1979-1980). After graduating, she rapidly established herself as one of the leading artists of her generation, initially known for her sculpture.read more
Sahel Al-Hiyari is the principal architect in the firm Sahel Al-Hiyari and Partners in Amman. He holds Bachelor Degrees in both architecture and the fine arts from the Rhode Island School of Design, and a Master of Architecture degree in Urban Design from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University; he also undertook post-graduate study at the school of architecture at the University of Venice, where he taught from 1993-1995.read more
Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies in the history department and director of the Middle East Institute at Columbia University; previously, he taught at the Lebanese University, the American University of Beirut, and Georgetown, Columbia, and Chicago Universities. He studied history at Yale University and received a doctorate in modern history from Oxford University. Professor Khalidi is the editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies, and past president of the Middle East Studies Association; he was an advisor to the Palestinian delegation for the Arab-Israeli peace negotiations in Madrid and Washington from October 1991 until June 1993.read more
Han Tümertekin is a practicing architect based in Istanbul and principal of Mimarlar Tasarim Danismanlik Ltd., a firm he established in 1986. He previously worked as an architect in Paris. His work includes residential, commercial and institutional projects primarily in Turkey, as well as in the Netherlands, Japan, United Kingdom, France, China, Mongolia and Kenya. Mr. Tümertekin was trained in architecture at Istanbul Technical University and completed graduate studies in historic preservation at the University of Istanbul.read more
Kenneth Yeang is an architect-planner and one of the foremost designers, theoreticians, and thinkers in the field of green design. A pioneer in a new genre of tall buildings referred to as “bioclimatic skyscrapers”, Yeang’s internationally renowned work specializes in the design of “green” architecture, or ecologically-responsive large buildings and master plans. With offices in Kuala Lumpur, London, Beijing, Singapore, and Australia, he has designed more than a dozen high-rise towers and over two hundred projects worldwide.read more