Zeineb Sedira - AlgeriaZineb Sedira is a London-based artist from Algeria whose work explores the ways in which her identity is informed by religion, culture, and gender. She does this by appropriating the traditionally male art form of Arabesque ceramic tiles in her installation Quatre Generations de Femmes. In her video installation Mother Tongue, 2002 comprised of three elements: Mother and I (France), Daughter and I (England) and Grandmother and Granddaughter (Algeria) she examines identity, gender, representation, language, translation, oral narrative and family. In this complex work, three languages are spoken, Arabic, French and English. Zineb Sedira has exhibited widely across Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. Her work was recently shown as part of the Venice Biennale (2001) and has also been featured in exhibitions at the Victoria and Albert Museum , London, UK (2002), Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark (2000), the Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK (1998).
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Susan Hefuna - EgyptIs of German-Egyptian bicultural heritage. This dual heritage informs much of the artist's work. Through photography, video, and digital media, Hefuna explores the indeterminacy of location and identity and the negotiation of an Arab, Muslim, and Christian identity while living and traveling in Europe and Cairo. Currently a professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Pforzfeim, Germany, Hefuna has exhibited throughout Europe and North Africa at venues including Al Nitaq Festival, Cairo, Egypt (2002), Sharon Esor Gallery, London, England (2002), Vacio 9 Gallery, Madrid, Spain (2000), National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa (2000), Biennale Cairo, Egypt (1998), and Brigitte March Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany (1998).
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 Fatma Charfi - TunisiaFatma Charfi is a Tunisian artist living in Bern, Switzerland. Through complex installation, sculpture and performance works, Charfi explores the problem of Diaspora. Her work investigates the complexity of displacement, of being a North African woman living in Swiss society. She has exhibited widely across Europe and North Africa, including the International Contemporary Art Biennale, Alexandria, Egypt (1999), the Dakar Biennale, Dakar, Senegal (2002), the Sculpture Triennale, Berne, Switzerland (2002), and the Centre d'Art contemporain Santander, Spain (2002). This is the first exhibition of her work in
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 Laila Shawa - PalestineLaila Al Shawa, born in Gaza - Palestine in 1946. Earned her Art degree in Leonardo Da Vinci's Art School, Cairo - Egypt as well as Fine Arts degree and Art Diploma in Italy. She's considered one of the most prominent Palestinian artists that for a certain period embodied and represented the Palestinian struggle and most particularly in her home town Gaza. Her depictions in "Walls of Gaza" carried what can be seen as a more serious approach to Pop art, using photographs and mixed media, creating artworks that would widely resemble a newly bred Intifada Warhol, sans the false colour manipulation of famous faces.
Shawa's art includes general artistic views, yet always tend to be sharp and critical and mostly carries socio-political messages. One of her most controversial artworks would be the colourful "Impossible Dream" which raised debates on her possible criticizing to women who wear the veil and how it obstructs them from enjoying the simple 'pleasures' of life.
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