Racha Baroud
Racha Baroud is a Lebanese performer and director. In 2015, she directed *Today was my birthday* in Paris, a musical tribute to Tadeusz Kantor’s *Theater of Death*. In 2020, she co-directed the documentary *Ali, Hachem, and Khaled* with filmmaker Roy Arida. In May 2022, she presented a solo performance titled *What if those tears were not only mine? * in Beirut. In 2023, she began a performative research project on the theme of erasure with patients at the Malévoz psychiatric hospital in Monthey, Switzerland. In 2025, she presented *When Adjusted to Darkness*, aduet in collaboration with composer Kinda Hassan. Since 2019, she has been part of the team at Studio Amalgam, a space dedicated to the performing arts in Beirut.

Carine Doumit
Carine Doumit explores editing as a space for shared creation, a tool, and a language for building collective experiences and knowledge. She collaborates on the writing and editing of films, videos, installations, and performances that are presented at various festivals, museums, and art galleries, including FIDMarseille, CPH DOX, The Eye, and the Beirut Art Center, among others. She writes short texts published in specialized journals or presented in exhibition spaces, as well as short stories published at contemporary art and design fairs. She has held residencies at the Arsenal Archives (Berlin, 2019), the Beirut Art Center (Beirut, 2020), MacDowell (United States, 2021 and 2024), and the Bogliasco Center (Italy, 2025). She shares her experience in writing and editing through workshops offered as part of university curricula and at arts institutions.

Kinda Hassan
Kinda Hassan is a Paris-based composer and artist who works with sound, video, craftsmanship, and software programming. Her works have been presented at various festivals, museums, and art galleries in Europe, North America, and the Middle East. Kinda Hassan earned a Master of Fine Arts from the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (ALBA) in 2007, a master’s degree in sound design from the École supérieure d’art et de design (ESAD-TALM) in Le Mans in 2018, as well as a diploma in music studies with a focus on electroacoustic music composition from the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Départemental (CRD) in Pantin. Since October 2024, she has been pursuing an artistic doctoral research project focused on the construction of automated instruments as an electroacoustic compositional practice. She has collaborated as a sound designer and composer on numerous video, film, and performance projects.