Nawal Nasrallah is an independent researcher and food writer who resides in Salem, New Hampshire. She is a member of the Culinary Historians of Boston, and her recipes have featured in publications such as New York Times, Boston Globe Magazine and Food and Wine. Her cookbook Delights from the Garden of Eden (2003) is regarded as the definitive source on the cuisine of Iraq, and her English translation of the tenth-century Baghdadi cookbook Kitab al-Tabikh, Annals of the Caliphs’ Kitchens, was awarded ‘Best Translation in the World’ and ‘Best of the Best of the Past 12 Years’ at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2007.
Simon Carnell is a freelance writer, reviewer, translator and poet. He has reviewed for and published poems in many publications including the TLS, Sunday Times, Spectator, New Statesman, Guardian, London Review of Books, Poetry Review, Harvard Review and Modern Painters, and he is the author of Notes of Several Experiments (2003).
Ken Worpole has written a number of pamphlets and books on urban and cultural policy. His books include Towns for People (1993), Libraries in a World of Cultural Change (1995), People, Parks and Cities (1996), Cemetery in the City (1997), Richer Futures: Fashioning a New Politics (1998),Here Comes the Sun: Architecture and Public Space in Twentieth Century European Culture (Reaktion, 2001) and Last Landscapes: The Architecture of the Cemetary in the West (Reaktion, 2003). He is married to Larraine Worpole, photographer.
Diane Yvonne Ghirardo is Professor of Architecture at the University of Southern California. She has published widely on Italian architecture.
Caroline Cros is curator at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris.
Peter Young is an independent scholar who lives in Crawley, West Sussex. He is author of Person to Person (1992), a social history of the telephone,Tortoise (2003) and Swan (2007), both published by Reaktion.
Lindsay Blair received her doctorate on Joseph Cornell from the University of Essex. She was Associate Producer of ‘Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box’, a BBC Omnibus programme first shown in 1991.
David Pascoe is Professor of Modern Literature and Culture in the Department of English Literature at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of Peter Greenaway: Museums and Moving Images (Reaktion, 1997), Airspaces (Reaktion, 2001) and Aircraft (Reaktion, 2003)
Peter Mason has written and lectured widely in the field of the history of art and visual culture, especially in relation to Latin America. His previous books include The Lives of Images (Reaktion, 2001) and Before Disenchantment: Images of Exotic Animals and Plants in the Early Modern World (Reaktion, 2009).
Andrew Causey is Professor of Modern Art History at the University of Manchester, and has published numerous books of modern British art and international sculpture