R¿IS¿N TAPPONI is a writer and film programmer. She is the Founder of Shasha Movies, a streaming platform for artist film and video from South-West Asia and North Africa (SWANA). She featured in Forbes's 30 Under 30 Europe for Entertainment in 2023. At twenty-five, Tapponi graduated with a PhD in the History of Art from the University of St Andrews. Her art writing has been published most recently in books by Phaidon, Gagosian, and Sadie Coles HQ. Scene City is Tapponi's debut novel. She is based in London, where she moved as a child with her family.