Tareq Rantisi is a Grammy-nominated world percussionist, composer, and educator. He has performed and recorded with some of the biggest names in modern music including Luciana Souza, Aaron Goldberg, Jon Batiste, and as a member of Danilo Perez’s Global Messengers. Tareq began studying music while teaching in Palestinian refugee camps and community centers in the West Bank and Jerusalem. He joined other educators in 2011 to found the Edward Said Conservatory in Gaza, Gaza’s first music school. Tareq’s artistic practice engages with Arabic, Jazz, Afro-Cuban, Indian, West African, Brazilian, and embracing deep study of folk traditions evident in his debut album A’hajeez (Jafra Productions 2024).

Mary Jirmanus Saba is a geographer who uses film and other media to explore the histories of labor movement in the Arab world and its connections to Latin America, feminist internationalism, and new transformative possibilities. Her feature debut A Feeling Greater Than Love won the FIPRESCI Critics Prize at the 2017 Berlinale Forum and went on to play hundreds of festivals, galleries, and community spaces — including Palestine solidarity encampments. Mary is a member of the Frantz Fanon Cultural Fund, the UAW Arab Caucus and the People’s CDC.