Menene Gras Editor

Menene Gras has been the Director of Culture and Exhibitions at Casa Asia (Barcelona and Madrid) since 2003 and is also the current Director of the Asian Film Festival Barcelona (AFFBCN). With a PhD from the University of Barcelona, Menene Gras is an art critic, curator, lecturer and former professor at the same university. Author of many essays, catalogues, anthologies and four books of poetry, she was Art Correspondent for Art Forum for more than twelve years and has been writing in many newspapers and art magazines for many years.

Jonathan Harris has taught at several British universities including Keele, Liverpool, Southampton, Birmingham City and the University for the Creative Arts in Canterbury, England, where he is Director of UCA Doctoral College. Specialising in modernist and contemporary art, Harris has published 23 books and over 150 book and journal essays, including a trilogy of studies on art and globalization, and most recently he has edited Terrorism and the Arts (Routledge 2021).

Bashir Makhoul is President & Vice-Chancellor of the University for the Creative Arts, UK. Professor Makhoul is a writer, editor, and artist with a substantial track record of driving globalization initiatives within higher education. He is widely acknowledged as a global authority on Palestinian art.