Zenith is a core team of 2 Directors, a Head of Design & Digital Media, and a Film Advisor. The core Zenith team is joined by other team members who work on specific projects (please see individual projects sections for names and profiles).

Mona Deeley
CEO & Founder
Mona is founder and CEO of Zenith Foundation. She has overall responsibility for all Zenith projects. Her role includes being the principal programmer of the Zenith Arab Cinema events and managing the events implementation; heading the research and development of the Arab Cities Art Exhibition taking place at Bluecoat and Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool in July 2008 and touring internationally; commissioning the treatment for the first ever Arab science fiction series; and commissioning, organising and chaired the Zenith Arab Art Workshop (Barbican 2004). In parallel with her work at Zenith, Mona has worked at BBC Worldwide and the BBC since 2000 in a senior legal and business affairs capacity.
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Seth Ayyaz
Music Director & Co-Founder
Zenith music director, ney player, electroacoustic composer, live electronics improviser, dj, and sonic experimenter.
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Lisa Skuret
Lisa has extensive creative experience working on high profile projects for clients including Adidas, Stella Artois and Sky. Alongside her new media practise, Lisa writes in the intersections between contemporary art, politics and life, and produces art projects for live performance and online intervention.
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Ali Jaafar
Film Advisor
Ali is advisor on the Zenith Arab Cinema events and was responsible for programming the BAFTA 06 event. Ali is also the Europe and Middle East correspondent for leading entertainment industry publication Variety and the Middle East programmer for the London Film Festival.