Khalid Albaih is a Sudanese political cartoonist and human rights advocate known for his global platform, Khartoon. The 2025 Artist-in-Residence at Georgetown University in Qatar, his work has been exhibited internationally, and his writings have appeared in major publications. He was featured in The Guardian’s documentary The Story of Civil Rights is Unfinished (2016) and has published two books: Khartoon! and Sudan Retold, an art book documenting Sudan’s history through 31 Sudanese artists. His installations, such as Bahar and The Walls Have Ears (Documenta 15), address themes of displacement and social justice. In 2024, he hosted Alhasil Shino? on AJ+ and serves as editor-in-chief of KhartoonMag.com, a platform for displaced Sudanese cartoonists. He is also the creator of the award-winning @DohaFashionFridays.

Larissa-Diana Fuhrmann is a researcher and curator with a focus on political violence, art, co-production of knowledge, and collective ways of working. Currently, she is working for the Peace Research Institute in Frankfurt, Germany. She investigates how political violence is negotiated, represented, and made tangible through various forms of knowledge. Resistant and decolonial approaches are central to her work as well as her engagement with creative forms of knowledge production and dissemination. In recent years, she has published in various media, curated numerous exhibitions, advised cultural institutions, and led workshops on critical curatorial practice and politically engaged art. 

Suzi Mirgani is the Editor/Assistant Director for Publications at CIRS, Georgetown University in Qatar. She oversees the Center’s publications and researches the intersection of politics and popular culture. She is the author of Target Markets: International Terrorism Meets Global Capitalism in the Mall (Transcript 2017) and editor of Informal Politics in the Middle East (Oxford University Press 2020) and Art and Cultural Production in the Gulf Cooperation Council (Routledge 2018), among other volumes. Her recent publications include “Peeking behind the Curtain: Gulf Filmmakers Imagine the Lives of Female Migrant Domestic Workers in the Arabian Peninsula” (2023) and “Consumer Citizenship: National Identity and Museum Merchandise in Qatar” (2019). Her creative work includes poetry, “Some Behavioral Characteristics of the Sudanese Honey Bee (Apis mellifera sudanensis),” Mizna 23, no. 2 (2022), and films: Cotton Queen (2025); Kamala Ishag: States of Oneness (2022); and Al-Sit (2020).

Abdelrahiem (Rahiem) Shadad is a Sudanese cultural researcher and curator now based in Nairobi. He was previously the director of The Rest, a residency for displaced artists in Nairobi. He is passionate about shedding light on the conflict in Sudan and its underreported social consequences. Prior to the war, Rahiem ran Downtown Gallery, Sudan’s fastest-growing art gallery since 2019.