Dr Gabriel Koureas is an art historian. He is Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London, and Fellow at the University of Nicosia. He completed his PhD at Birkbeck where he was full member of its faculty from 2000 to 2019. His research concentrates on the memory and representation of conflict in relation to gender and sexuality in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. His most recent research concentrates on issues of transcultural memory exchanges in contemporary art practices in the ex-Ottoman Empire and gendered representations of the terrorist in visual cultures. His other publications include works on masculinity and the commemoration of the First World War, art and the senses, and the visual culture of colonial wars of independence. His most recent publication is the co-edited volume with Evi Tselika and Elena Stylianou Contemporary Art from Cyprus (Bloomsbury, 2021). He served as member of the steering committee of the Centre for Cultural Memory, School of Advanced Studies, University of London, the Centre for Museum Cultures and Peltz Gallery, School of Arts, Birkbeck. He was born and brought up in Nicosia where he recently relocated from the UK and he is currently completing a monograph on transcultural Mediterranean memories.