Refaat Al-Areer was a prominent Palestinian writer, poet, professor, and activist from the Gaza Strip. He was killed on December 7, 2023, when an Israeli airstrike targeted the home in Shajaiya where he was staying with his brother, his sister, and his sister’s four children, who were also killed.
Basman Aldirawi (also published as Basman Derawi) is a physiotherapist and graduated from Al-Azhar University in Gaza in 2010. Inspired by an interest in music, movies, and people with special needs, he contributes dozens of stories to the online platform We Are Not Numbers.
Samer Abu Hawash (@samerabuhawash) is a Palestinian writer and translator.
Huda Fakhreddine is a translator and Associate Professor of Arabic Literature
at the University of Pennsylvania.
Fady Joudah is a poet for our times and all. He is the author of five collections; most recently, […] (Milkweed Editions). He has translated several
collections of poetry from Arabic and is the co-editor and co-founder of the
Etel Adnan Poetry Prize.
Ahlam Bsharat is a Palestinian novelist, poet and children’s author, as well as a teacher of creative writing.
Ghassan Zaqtan is a Palestinian poet, novelist, and editor who was born in
Bethlehem and has lived in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Tunisia. He is the author of numerous collections of poetry, a novel and a play. His verse collection Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me (Yale University Press), translated by Fady Joudah, was awarded the Griffin Poetry Prize for 2013, and he was nominated for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in both 2014 and 2016.
Samuel Wilder is a translator of Arabic literature, a writer and a student of
comparative poetics. He has translated three books by Ghassan Zaqtan.
Nora Parr is a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham and at the
Center for Lebanese Studies and is the author of Novel Palestine: Nation through the Works of Ibrahim Nasrallah (University of California Press). She co-edits Middle Eastern Literatures.
Olivia Elias is a poet of the Palestinian diaspora who writes in French. Born in
Haifa in 1944, she lived until the age of sixteen in Lebanon, where her family
took refuge in 1948, then in Montreal, before moving to France. Her work,
translated into English, Arabic, Spanish, Italian and Japanese, has appeared
in anthologies and numerous journals. In 2022, she published her first book
in English translation, Chaos, Crossing (World Poetry), translated by Kareem
James Abu-Zeid.
Jérémy Victor Robert is a translator between English and French who works
and lives in his native Réunion Island.
Andaleeb Cartonera 