Habda Rashid Author & Editor

Tom de Freston (b. 1983) is an artist and writer. He exhibits internationally with work in notable public and private collections. He held Levy-Plumb and Leverhulme residencies at Cambridge University, was chosen to illustrate the twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of David Almond’s Skellig and his narrative non-fiction writing is published by Granta. Habda Rashid is a Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Kettle’s Yard and the Fitzwilliam Museum. Formerly part of the curatorial department at the Whitechapel Gallery, she has worked with a wide range of artists including Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Shezad Dawood, Michael Rakowitz, Eva Rothschild, Emma Smith and Veronica Ryan. Since completing an MA in Creative Writing at Glasgow University, Yasmina Floyer’s short fiction and narrative nonfiction have been published in various literary journals. She writes features for titles including The Guardian, The Observer Magazine, Cosmopolitan and Psychologies Magazine. She lives in London with her husband and two children. Mark Jones is a documentary director and editor based in Indonesia. His films have been screened internationally through theatrical, exhibition and online channels. Dr Ali Souleman (PhD, the University of Oxford) is a professor of Theatre Studies, writer and literary translator. He worked as a Professor of Theatre Studies at the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Damascus and as a visiting researcher at the University of Oxford. He is currently an independent researcher based in Oxford.