Tarek Abou El Fetouh is an independent curator and architect who lives and works in Brussels. His curatorial works include It’s Happening in the Garage, Alexandria, Egypt, 2000; Dis-Orientation, House of World Cultures, Berlin in 2003; Roaming Inner Landscapes, Alexandria in 2004 and Sharjah Biennale 9 in 2009. He initiated Meeting Points – Festival for Contemporary Arts and curated the first four iterations across several cities in the Middle East. Abou El Fetouh has worked as artistic director of Meeting Points with curators Frie Leysen for MP5, Okwui Enwezor for MP6 and the Zagreb, Croatia based collective WHW for MP7. His curatorial works include the exhibition of Home Works 6, organized by Ashkal Alwan in Beirut 2013, Lest the Two Seas Meet at MoMA, Warsaw in 2015, “The time is out of joint in Sharjah and Gwangju in 2016, “A Captive of Love” 2017 and :Rituals of Signs and Metamorphosis” in Red Bricks Museum, Beijing. Abou El Fetouh was recently appointed curator of visual arts of Expo 2020 Dubai.