AHMAD BARCLAY
Ahmad Barclay is an architect, UX designer and coder engaged in projects involving data visualisation, visual storytelling and learning through play. He has led award-winning projects with Visualizing Palestine and in his current role at the Office for National Statistics, and initiated Palestine Open Maps, an open data project supported by Mozilla and Creative Commons. Ahmad has contributed to a variety of publications, and facilitated courses and workshops based on his projects and practices in Beirut, London, Lisbon, Amman and Bangalore.
The common thread through his work is a desire to build impactful projects that engage with real people and communities. Each project is unique, and he finds himself constantly learning by doing, and doing his best to share knowledge to others. Ahmad was a founding partner with Visualizing Palestine and a core member of the team for 8 years. His work is featured throughout Visualizing Palestine: A Chronicle of Colonialism and the Struggle for Liberation.
MONA CHALABI
Mona is an award-winning writer and illustrator. Her work has earned her a Pulitzer Prize, a fellowship at the British Science Association, an Emmy nomination and recognition from the Royal Statistical Society. In recent years, her art has been exhibited at the Smithsonian Design Museum, the Tate, the Brooklyn Museum, the Design Museum, and the House of Illustration. She studied international relations in Paris and Arabic in Jordan.
Mona works beside windows, sometimes in her hometown, London, but usually in Brooklyn where she is writing a book about the ways we talk about money. She is also the executive producer and creative director of an upcoming animated TV show with Ramy Youssef, A24 and Amazon Studios.
Her writing and illustrations have been featured in the New York Times, the New Yorker and the Guardian where she is currently the data editor. Her video, audio, and production work has been featured on Netflix, NPR, the BBC, and National Geographic.
HAZEM JAMJOUM
Hazem is an educator and an editor with the recently-established publishing house Safarjal Press. His translation of Ghassan Kanafani's The Revolution of 1936-1939 in Palestine was published by 1804 Press in 2023, and his translation of Maya Abu al-Hayyat's No One Knows their Blood Type was released by the CSU Poetry Centre in October 2024.