Jawad Dukhgan is an architect and a curator based in Amman. In recent years, he has developed and led research initiatives and public programs on architecture and urbanism in the Arab region for Columbia University GSAPP’s Studio-X Amman, focusing on urban planning and urban design in the region.
Falestin Naili is a historian based at the University of Basel and associated with the Institut français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo) in Amman. She specializes in the social history of late Ottoman and Mandate Palestine and Jordan and has focused much of her recent research on local governance and politics, particularly in Jerusalem.