Neil van der Linden is a Dutch consultant, curator and programmer in music, theatre and visual art from the Middle East, North Africa and Central-Asia who focuses on the representation of Palestine and how the West receives the image of this part of the world. Mohammed Omer is a Palestinian award-winning journalist who has reported for a variety of media, including The New York Times, The Washington Report on Middle Eastern Affairs and Al Jazeera. He obtained a Ph.D. at the Erasmus University, Rotterdam in media communications and is currently a visiting researcher at Harvard University.