Koutaiba is a Film Director and Photographer who left Iraq when he was 17. His first feature film was released in 2010.
Marina Lewycka
Marina is an author whose first book, A short history of tractors in Ukrainian, sold over a million copies worldwide.
Téa Hodzic (
Téa Hodzic was born in Sarajevo , Bosnia where she trained in classical guitar and opera.
Robert Vas
Robert Vas was a documentary filmmaker from Hungary who saw his artistic mission as being to remind and warn audiences of the abuses of power.
George Szirtes
George Szirtes is a painter-turned-poet originally from Hungary who writes about England and Englishness as well as his Hungarian origins in his poetry and translation work.
Gillian Slovo
Writing, for Gillian Slovo, is best described as a process of interrogation into what happens when individual lives are caught up in political events – her latter works explore her experience as the daughter of anti-apartheid activists in South Africa.
Mona Hatoum
Mona Hatoum is a Palestinian video artist and installation artist born in Lebanon who explores the harshness of life and exile using a variety of media.
M.I.A.
M.I.A. is an award winning recording artist who was born in Sri Lanka to Tamil parents. She is also a songwriter, painter and director.
Eva Jiřičná CBE
Eva was born in Zlin, Czechoslovakia where she trained as an architect and came to London in 1968. She was awarded a CBE for services to interior design.
Hamid Ismailov
Hamid is a poet and author from Uzbekistan, and Writer in Residence at the BBC’s World Service.
