Omar Kholeif (born in Cairo, lives and works in Chicago and London) is a writer, curator, editor, and broadcaster. He has written extensively on art in a global context, focusing on art that intersects with the Internet, as well as works of art from emerging geographic territories that have yet to be seen in the mainstream. He is the author and or editor of over two-dozen books and his writing has appeared in
The Guardian,
Wired,
frieze, and
Artforum,
Mousse, among numerous publications. Media organs such as,
The New York Times, BBC,
Financial Times,
The Wall Street Journal,
GQ,
The Economist,
The Art Newspaper,
Vice,
The New Scientist, and others, have profiled his work.
