Issam Kourbaj /anglais - Softcover

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Åsmund Asdal is a Norwegian biologist and agronomist who currently works as Seed Vault Coordinator at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, operated by the Nordic Genetic Resource Center (NordGen). He facilitates seed deposits from the international genebank community. From 2001 to 2015 he managed the Norwegian national programme for plant genetic resources at the Norwegian Genetic Resource Center. Brian Dillon is the author of several books of non-fiction, including Essayism, Affinities, Suppose a Sentence and In the Dark Room. His writing has appeared in Frieze, Artforum, the Guardian, the New York Times, the London Review of Books and the New Yorker. He lives in London and has curated exhibitions for Tate Britain and Hayward Touring. Bonnie Greer OBE FRSL is an American-British playwright, novelist, critic and broadcaster. She has lived in the UK since 1986 and has served on the boards of leading arts and cultural organisations including the British Museum, the Royal Opera House and the London Film School. Her memoir A Parallel Life is published by Arcadia Books, and she is a regular contributor to The New European and ByLineTimes. She is currently writing a memoir about James Baldwin. Rana Haddad was born in Syria and moved to the UK at the age of 15. She now lives between London and Athens. She read English Literature at the University of Cambridge and worked as a journalist for the Arab press in London and later the BBC, Channel 4 and other broadcasters. Her novel, The Unexpected Love Objects of Dunya Noor, was published by Hoopoe Fiction in 2018 and was shortlisted for the Polari First Book Prize. Guy Haywood is Curator at Kettle’s Yard, the University of Cambridge’s modern and contemporary art gallery. Since 2010 he has been involved in organising exhibitions, projects and commissions by leading artists including Oscar Murillo, Anthea Hamilton, Gustav Metzger, Sutapa Biswas, Ai Weiwei and others. In 2021 he co-edited Oscar Murillo: by means of a detour. Prerona Prasad is Curator at the Heong Gallery at Downing College, a gallery specialising in modern and contemporary art. After obtaining her DPhil from the University of Oxford, she began a career in exhibition management and curation. She has curated solo exhibitions of artists including Quentin Blake, Elisabeth Frink, Charles M. Schulz, Soheila Sokhanvari, Gavin Turk and Stuart Pearson Wright. Forthcoming curatorial projects include solo exhibitions of Alison Wilding RA and Rasheed Araeen.