Shirin Neshat is an Iranian born artist/filmmaker living in New York
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2013
William Graham is Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
Elaheh Kheirandish is a Fellow at the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture
Robert Hillenbrand is FBA, Professor Emeritus of Islamic Art, Edinburgh University
Renata Holod is Professor in the Humanities at the History of Art Department, and Curator, Near East Section, of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania.
Anna Contadini is Professor of the History of Islamic Art, Department of the History of Art and Archaeology, SOAS, University of London
Oliver Watson is I. M. Pei Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, Khalili Research Centre, University of Oxford
Wheeler Thackston is an Independent Scholar
Barbara Brend is an Independent Scholar
Abdallah Kahil is Assistant Professor and Director of the Institute of Islamic Art and Architecture, Lebanese American University in Beirut
Hakan Karateke is Associate Professor of Ottoman and Turkish Culture, Language and Literature, University of Chicago.
Susan Stronge is Senior Curator, Asian Department, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Ali Behdad is John Charles Hillis Professor of Literature and Chair of the English Department at UCLA