Sheila Canby is curator emerita and former curator in charge of the Department of Islamic Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Venetia Porter is honorary research fellow and former curator of Islamic and Contemporary Middle East art at the British Museum. Linda Komaroff is curator and department head, Art of the Middle East, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Nada Shabout is a regents professor of Art History and the coordinator of the Contemporary Arab and Muslim Cultural Studies Initiative (CAMCSI) at the University of North Texas. Sarah Rogers is visiting assistant professor in the department of History of Art and Architecture at Middlebury College.