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Al Burda Festival
Speakers
Speaker
H.E. Noura Bint Mohammed Al Kaabi
Minister of Culture and Youth, UAE
H.E. Manal Ataya
Director General, Sharjah Museums Authority, UAE
H.E. Omar Ghobash
Assistant Minister for Cultural Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the United Arab Emirates
H.E. Huda Kanoo
Founder, Abu Dhabi Music and Arts Foundation, UAE
H.E. Shaikha Mai Bint Mohammed Al Khalifa
Professor Carlos Guedes
Associate Professor of Music, New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE
Professor Kishwar Rizvi
Professor of Islamic Art and Architectural History, Yale University, USA
Dr. Denise A. Spellberg
Associate Professor of History and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas, Austin, USA
Imran Qureshi
Visual Artist, Miniature Painter and Art Educationist, National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan
Dr. Ulrike Al-Khamis
Director and CEO, Aga Khan Museum, Canada
Dr. Yannick Lintz
Director of Islamic Arts Department, The Louvre Museum, France
Nada Abdallah
Assistant Professor at College of Fine Arts & Design, University of Sharjah, UAE
Ebtisam AbdulAziz
Artist and writer, USA
Isobel Abulhoul
CEO and Trustee, Emirates Literature Foundation, UAE
Farid Al-Ali
Director of the Kuwait Center for Islamic Arts and former Secretary of the Kuwaiti Society for Formative Arts
Shamma Al Bastaki
Mina Al Oraibi
Editor in Chief, The National, UAE
Wael Al Awar
Principal Architect, Waiwai, UAE
Alia Al Zougbi
Joint CEO, Shubbak, UK
Juma Alhaj
Artist, UAE
Becky Anderson
Anchor of Connect the World, CNN, UAE
Hani Asfour
Dean, Dubai Institute of Design and Innovation (DIDI), UAE
Afra Atiq
Award-winning poet and scholar
Laila Binbrek
Coordinating Director, National Pavilion UAE - La Biennale di Venezia, UAE
Baraka Blue
Poet, Musician and Author, Rumi Center for Spirituality & the Arts, USA
Faiza Bouguessa
Creative Director
Alanood Bukhammas
Graphic Design Instructor, College of Arts and Creative Enterprises, Zayed University, UAE
Dr. Sheila Canby
Curator Emerita, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA
Sumaya Dabbagh
Principal, Dabbagh Architects, UAE
Younes Duret
Designer, Younes Duret Design, Morocco
Peter Gould
Founder and CEO, Gould Studio, Australia
Ghizlan Guenez
Entrepreneur, Founder of the Modist, UAE
Arin Hassan
Artist – Designer, Tashkeel, UAE
Selma Ćatović Hughes
Designer at American University of Sharjah, UAE
Ayman Jamal
Founder and CEO, Barajoun Entertainment, KSA
Behnood Javaherpour
Founder and Creative Director, Behnoode Foundation, UAE
Anouar Kassim MBE
Founding Director, Milton Keynes Islamic Arts and Culture (MKIAC), UK
Ilze Loza
Assistant Professor, Zayed University, College of Arts and Creative enterprises, UAE
Eddy Maroun
Co-founder and CEO, Anghami, UAE
Dr. Blythe McCarthy
Andrew W. Mellon Senior Scientist, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, USA (VIRTUAL)
Diego Mendoza
Education and Outreach Coordinator at Tashkeel, UAE
Hind Mezaina
Artist, Writer and Film Curator, UAE
Mikey Muhanna
Founder and Executive Director, Afikra, Lebanon
Nima Nabavi
Artist, Geometric Abstraction, UAE
Moyasser Naseer
Architect from the city of Mosul, Iraq
Souraya Noujaim
Director - Scientific Curatorial and Collection Management at Louvre Abu Dhabi, UAE
Dina Rwaished
Creative Designer, Tashkeel, UAE
Amal Sahlawi
Writer and Poet, UAE
Omar Sartawi
Food Artist / Molecular Gastronomer, Jordan
Dr. Pradeep Sharma
Director, Arts, Culture and Heritage, Salama Bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation, UAE
Kamelia Zaal
Managing-Director and Lead Designer, Kamelia Landscape Design, UAE
Yves Ubelmann
President and Co-founder, ICONEM, France
Gayane Umerova
Executive Director, Art and Culture Development Foundation, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan