Dina Matar is professor of Global Communication and Arab Media at SOAS, University of London and former Chair of Centre for Palestine Studies. She is editor, with Helga Tawil-Souri, of Producing Palestine: the Creative Production of Palestine through Contemporary Media (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024), Gaza as Metaphor (Hurst, 2016), and author of What it Means to be Palestinian: Stories of Palestinian Peoplehood (I.B. Tauris, 2010).

Venetia Porter is former senior curator for Islamic and Contemporary Middle East art at the British Museum where she is now honorary research fellow. Her exhibitions include Hajj: journey to the heart of Islam (2012) and she was the lead curator for the Albukhary Foundation gallery of the Islamic World (opened 2018). She is a trustee of the Arab British Centre and her most recent publication is Artists Making Books: Poetry to Politics (British Museum Press 2023).