| ORGANIZERS | |
| Kitty Aal | Independent Curator, Minneapolis |
| Mazhar Al-Zo'by | Professor, Zayed University, Abu Dhabi |
| Hisham Bizri | Professor, Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, UMN |
| STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS | |
| Mohammed Bamyeh | Hubert Humphrey Professor of International Studies, Macalester College |
| Mohannad Ghawanmeh | Independent Scholar, Minneapolis |
| William Hill | Department of South Asian, Middle East Languages and Cultures (SAMELC), UMN |
| Imed Labidi | Lecturer, Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, UMN |
| Laura Sayles | Institute for Global Studies, UMN |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FACULTY/STAFF/STUDENTS INVOLVED | |
| Heba Amin (Design) | Department of Design, Housing, and Apparel , UMN |
| Mark Anderson | Department of Asian Languages and Literature, UMN |
| Leo Chen | Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, UMN |
| Evelyn Davidheiser | Institute for Global Studies, UMN |
| Karen Kinoshita | Institute for Advanced Study, UMN |
| Christine Marran | Department of Asian Languages and Literature, UMN |
| Jason McGrath | Department of Asian Languages and Literature, UMN |
| Ahmed Mohamed (Videography) | Student, UMN |
| John Mowitt | Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, UMN |
| Kelly O'Brien | College of Liberal Arts, UMN |