Algerian-born Zahia Rahmani is an art historian and writer of fiction, memoirs and cultural criticism. In 2015 she founded the Global Art Prospective, a collective of young researchers and agents within the art scene who are specialists in non-European territorial and cultural spaces. Rahmani is Director of the Research Programme on Art and Globalisation at the Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art (INHA), where the collective, multilingual and decentralised research was conducted for this project.