Bassam El-Baroni is a writer/curator based in Alexandria, Egypt. In late 2005, he founded Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF), an alternative art space (the first in Egypt's second largest city) which he currently co-directs. As a writer he has published texts on the work of many artists, including Susan Hefuna, Amina Mansour, Mona Marzouk and Karim Rashid. His writings have also appeared in a number of local and international publications such as Bidoun, A-42 Arte and Culturas, and Canvas. He has also lectured in Cairo, Amsterdam, Addis Ababa, Dubai, Tenerife and Cape Town among other cities. Recent curatorial projects include the exhibition Family - You, Me and the Trajectories of a Post-Everything Era, PROGR - Zentrum für Kulturproduktion, Bern, Switzerland (2006) and Prototypes for an Advanced Outdoor Visual Culture (2006), an art in public spaces project in Alexandria with the artist duo Winter/Holbert and art students from Alexandria and Frankfurt

Mai Abu ElDahab is an independent curator based in Cairo. Since 2000, she has been involved in producing, curating and writing about contemporary art in Egypt and internationally. She is currently involved in editing the upcoming issues of Aprior (Brussels), Interviu (Vilnius) and Dot Dot Dot (New York) magazines. The summer of 2007, she was a curatorial resident at PROGR, Bern.