Nour A. Munawar is an archaeologist and UNESCO heritage expert and currently works as a research fellow at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). He is the principal investigator of the “Decolonial Futures: Heritage, Memory, and Narratives in the Making in MENA” research project funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). He also works as a UNESCO Researcher for the UNESCO Documentary Heritage Unit on the “Documentary Heritage for Intercultural dialogue – a case study of AlUla, Saudi Arabia”.
Gertjan Plets is an associate professor in Cultural History and Heritage at Utrecht University. At Utrecht he coordinates and conducts research in the field of heritage politics, theoretical archaeology, corporate sponsorship and Russian cultural politics. He broadly approaches cultural heritage as a cultural expression and political statement. His regional focus is Russia and the post-colonial Netherlands.