Walid Raad is a media producer and an assistant professor of media and cultural studies at Queens College, City University of New York. Ra'ad holds a PhD in Visual and Cultural Studies from the University of Rochester. His video and photography works have been exhibited widely in the US, Western Europe and the Middle East. His recent video works include The Dead Weight of a Quarrel Hangs (1998, NTSC, 18:00) and he recently co-edited with Deborah Root a special issue of the journal Public, titled Entangles Territories: Imaging the Orient.