Rachel Dedman is a curator, writer, art historian and has been the Jameel Curator of Contemporary Art from the Middle East at V&A, London since 2019. Other recent projects include Jameel Prize: Moving Images at V&A South Kensington, the State of Fashion Biennale: Ties that Bind, in Arnhem and Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery for Kettle’s Yard and The Whitworth. Her book Stitching The Intifada traces the politicisation of embroidery in Palestine after the Nakba of 1948.

Kirsty Hassard is a senior curator and fashion historian at V&A Dundee, and previously worked in the Furniture, Textiles and Fashion department at V&A South Kensington. She has previously co-curated V&A Dundee’s flagship Tartan exhibition, as well as Night Fever: Designing Club Culture, Mary Quant, and the upcoming 2026 exhibition Catwalk: The Art of the Fashion Show. She has published on women and work, and the relationship between fashion and print culture in the eighteenth century.

Wafa Ghnaim, founder of the Tatreez Institute, is a dress historian, author, archivist and embroiderer who learned tatreez from her mother, artist Feryal Abbasi-Ghnaim. She specialises in Palestinian and regional dress history, with a focus on embroidery, reconstruction, and oral history. Her publications include Tatreez & Tea, THOBNA, and Tatreez Companion, with research featured by institutions such as the Met and the Art Institute of Chicago, amongst others