Halasa, M: Secret Life of Syrian Lingerie

Malu Halasa is an editor and journalist. She is the co-editor of Creating Spaces of Freedom: Culture in Defiance (2002), Transit Beirut: New Writing and Images (2004), and Transit Tehran: Young Iran and its Inspirations (2008). Former managing editor of the Prince Claus Fund Library, she was also a founding editor of Tank magazine. She lives in London and writes for the British press. Rana Salam has run her own London-based design practise since 1992. Her exploration of Middle-Easter popular culture, product design and crafts has led her to create and distinct graphics style. She has been commissioned by Paul Smith, Liberty's and Harvey Nicolls, among others. She has been exhibited in Lebanon, the United State Emirates and the United Kingdom by the Arts Council and Institute of International Visual Arts (inlVA). Omar Al-Moutem has been taking photographs for the past twenty-five years. He first worked as a passport photographer and later as a product photographer before setting up his own studio. He photographs for Syrian lingerie manufacturers in Damascus. Gilbert Hage is an artist and photographer who has exhibited in Lebanon, Brazil and Germany. Her participated in Present Absence: Contemporary Art from Lebanon (2004) at Galerie Tanit, Munich. Hage teaches at the University Saint-Esprit de Kaslik in Lebanon and at the Academie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts (Alba), University of Balamand. Iman Ibrahim has been writing poetry for the past twelve years. Her poems have appeared in Syrian newspapers and magazines. Her first book of verse, The Window of Zebra, was published by the Syrian Ministry of Culture. After she studied photography at Le Pont Gallery in Aleppo, her work has consisted primarily of self-portraiture. She has exhibited in Syria, Lebanon and Europe. Noura Kevorkan is a filmmaker, painter, photographer and composer. Her first documentary, Veils Uncovered (2001), won numerous awards, including the National Film Board Award for Best Canadian Documentary at