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Daniel Drennan ElAwar is an illustrator and printmaker who works within a documentary genre. His work focuses primarily on issues of displacement, dispossession, and disinheritance. Drennan ElAwar attended Syracuse University, and later Parson's School of Design, both New York and Paris campuses.

In 2009, he founded a Beirut-based artists' collective, ‎جمع اليد (Jamaa Al-Yad), which produces posters, calligraphy, and other artworks of a social activist nature. The collective’s work has been exhibited at the Queens Museum and Museum of Modern Art along with other international venues.

He was formerly associate art director of Saveur magazine in New York City, and most recently worked as an assistant professor of graphic design at the American University of Beirut, where he lived for 12 years. From March through September, 2017, he was named a resident artist at the Newark Print Shop in New Jersey.

Rozita Moini-Shirazi is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work includes drawing, painting, photography, installation and illustration. Her work has been widely exhibited throughout Canada and beyond. Moini's current art focuses on the fusion of different cultures by illustrating the similarities found in all art. Moini has been working as the art director of different publishing companies and taught at post-secondary levels for many years. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Visual arts and has received her master's in illustration. She is a Doctoral candidate at the University of Victoria in the faculty of Art Education. Rozita’s current research interest is the importance of self-identity in shaping the work of the emerging artists and how education can assist them to portray their true being along the way in order to generate original artwork.