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Randa Jarrar

Randa Jarrar is a Palestinian-American author, translator, performer, and professor.

Jarrar's first novel, the coming-of-age story A Map of Home (2008), won her the Hopwood Award, and an Arab American Book Award. Since then she has published short stories, essays in a number of anthologies and collections as well as her short story collection, Him, Me, Muhammad Ali (2016), and her memoir, Love Is an Ex-Country (2021).

Jarrar was born in 1978 in Chicago, to an Egyptian mother and a Palestinian father. She grew up in Kuwait and Egypt. After the Gulf War in 1991, she and her family returned to the United States, living in the New York area.

Jarrar studied creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College, receiving an MA in Middle Eastern Studies from

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Sahar Khalifeh

Sahar Khalifeh (Arabic: سحر خليفة ; also as Sahar Khalifa in French, German, Italian) is a Palestinian writer.

She has written eleven novels, which have been translated into English, French, Hebrew, German, Spanish, and many other languages. One of her best-known works is the novel Wild Thorns (1976). She has won international prizes, including the 2006 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature, for The Image, the Icon, and the Covenant.

Sahar Khalifeh is the founder of the Women's Affairs Center in Nablus. She received her B.A. degree in English & American Literature from Birzeit University (Palestine, 1977), an M.A. from the The University of North Carolina (USA, 1982) and a PhD in Women Studies & American Women’s Literature from the Uni

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Sulaiman Addonia

Sulaiman S.M.Y. Addonia is an author residing in London. He was born as the son of an Eritrean mother and an Ethiopian father in Eritrea. He spent his early life in a refugee camp in Sudan, following the Om Hajar massacre in 1976. In his early teens, he lived and studied in Saudi Arabia. He sought the asylum with his brother in London in 1990, and studied at the University College London.

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John Grant

John Grant is author of over eighty books, of which about twenty-five are fiction, including novels like The World, The Hundredfold Problem, The Far-Enough Window and most recently The Dragons of Manhattan and Leaving Fortusa. His “book-length fiction” Dragonhenge, illustrated by Bob Eggleton, was shortlisted for a Hugo Award in 2003; its successor was The Stardragons. His first story collection, Take No Prisoners, appeared in 2004. He is editor of the anthology New Writings in the Fantastic, which was shortlisted for a British Fantasy Award. His novellas The City in These Pages and The Lonely Hunter have appeared from PS Publishing.

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Said Ahmad Khusankhodjaev

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Uzbek Soviet writer and playwright, Hero of Uzbekistan, People's Writer of Uzbekistan, Honored Art Worker of Uzbekistan, Knight of the Order "For Outstanding Service "And the Order of Friendship. He published his works under the literary name Said Ahmad.

Since the mid-1930s, Said Ahmad has been working as a journalist, actively participating in the processes of collectivization and the elimination of illiteracy in the countryside. At the end of the 30s, he published his first publicistic essays and stories in the Kizil Uzbekiston newspaper and the Mushtum and Shark Yulduzi magazines.

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Kathrina Mohd Daud is the author of three novels: The Halfling King (2017), The Fisherman King (2020) and The Witch Doctor's Daughter (2022). She holds a PhD in Writing from the University of Manchester, and is an Assistant Professor in Universiti Brunei Darussalam's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, specialising in Bruneian literature and Creative Writing. She has published both creative and academic work, and is currently undertaking an English translation of the seminal Bruneian novel, Norsiah Gapar's Pengabdian (Submission, 1987), and co-editing a special collection of essays on Brunei's first feature film, Gema Dari Menara (Echoes from the Minaret, 1968). She works actively with local creative communities, is an art critic for The S

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Epeli Hauʻofa

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Jean Bürlesk

Jean Bürlesk is a storyteller. He writes, he reads, he acts, he makes jokes nobody understands. He would sing and dance, but he has no sense of rhythm or melody. Sometimes he still sings and dances. As a Luxembourger and a lover of words, he expresses himself in five recognizable languages, as well as the usual nonsense.

He’s a terrific guide, unless of course he’s not and people just don’t have the heart to tell him.

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Fariha Róisín

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Leila Aboulela

Leila Aboulela grew up in Khartoum, Sudan where she attended the Khartoum American School and Sister School. She graduated from Khartoum University in 1985 with a degree in Economics and was awarded her Masters degree in statistics from the London School of Economics. She lived for many years in Aberdeen where she wrote most of her works while looking after her family; she currently lives and lectures in Abu Dhabi.

She was awarded the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2000 for her short story The Museum and her novel The Translator was nominated for the Orange Prize in 2002, and was chosen as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times in 2006.

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Don Robertson

Robertson was born in Cleveland, Ohio and attended East High School. He briefly attended Harvard and Western Reserve University (now Case Western Reserve University) before working as a reporter and columnist.

Robertson won the Cleveland Arts Prize in 1966. The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature presented him with its Mark Twain Award in 1991. The Press Club of Cleveland's Hall of Fame inducted Robertson in 1992, and he received the Society of Professional Journalist's Life Achievement Award in 1995.

Robertson died on his birthday in 1999, aged 70. He's buried in Logan, Ohio.

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Tash Aw

Born in Taiwan to Malaysian parents, Tash Aw grew up in Kuala Lumpur before moving to England in his teens. He studied law at the University of Cambridge and University of Warwick, then moved to London to write. After graduating he worked at a number of jobs, including as a lawyer for four years whilst writing his debut novel, which he completed during the creative writing course at the University of East Anglia. Based on royalties as well as prizes, Aw is the most successful Malaysian writer of recent years. Following the announcement of the Booker longlist, the Whitbread Award and his Commonwealth Writers' Prize, he became a celebrity in Malaysia and Singapore, and is now one of the most respected literary figures in Southeast Asia.

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Yusra Mardini

Yusra and her elder sister fled the Syrian war and set off on a perilous journey to find safety in Europe. In summer 2015, they travelled through Lebanon to Turkey before departing for Greece in an overcrowded dinghy.

Fifteen minutes into the sea crossing, the boat’s engine failed. As a professional swimmer, Yusra was determined not to let any of her fellow passengers drown. Yusra, her sister and two others jumped into the waves and swam for three and a half hours in open water to stop their dinghy capsizing, saving the lives of 20 people.

A year later, Yusra’s courage, determination and strong swimming skills were recognized by the International Olympic Committee and became a member of the first ever Refugee Olympic Team. Yusra competed at

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Maria Hesselager

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Jokha Alharthi جوخة الحارثي

Jokha al-Harthi (Arabic: جوخة الحارثي‎; born July 1978) is an Omani writer and academic. She was educated in Oman and in the United Kingdom. She obtained her PhD in classical Arabic literature from Edinburgh University. She is currently an associate professor in the Arabic department at Sultan Qaboos University.

al-Harthi has published three collections of short stories and three novels (Manamat, Sayyidat el-Qamar and Narinjah). She has also authored academic works. Her work has been translated into English, Serbian, Korean, Italian, and German and published in Banipal magazine. She was also one of eight participants in the 2011 IPAF Nadwa (writers' workshop). al-Harthi won the Sultan Qaboos Award for Culture, Arts and Literature, for her no

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Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig was one of the world's most famous writers during the 1920s and 1930s, especially in the U.S., South America, and Europe. He produced novels, plays, biographies, and journalist pieces. Among his most famous works are Beware of Pity, Letter from an Unknown Woman, and Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles. He and his second wife committed suicide in 1942.
Zweig studied in Austria, France, and Germany before settling in Salzburg in 1913. In 1934, driven into exile by the Nazis, he emigrated to England and then, in 1940, to Brazil by way of New York. Finding only growing loneliness and disillusionment in their new surroundings, he and his second wife committed suicide.
Zweig's interest in psychology and the teachings of Sigmund Freu

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский (Russian)

Works, such as the novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), of Russian writer Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky or Dostoevski combine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight.

Very influential writings of Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin included Problems of Dostoyevsky's Works (1929),

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky composed short stories, essays, and journals. His literature explores humans in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century and engages with a variety of philosophies and themes. People most acclaimed his Demons(1872) .

Many literary critics rate him among the greatest authors of worl

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Youssef Ziedan

(Arabic: يوسف زيدان)

Director of the Manuscript Center/Museum, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
Professor of Philosophy and History of Science.

Awards and Grants:
- 2009 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) In Association with the Booker Prize Foundation
- Imam Muhammad Madi Abul-‘Aza’im Award in the field of Islamic studies in 1995.
- ‘Abdul-Hamid Shuman Prize in the field of social studies in 1996 for his book Fawā’ih al-Jamāl wa Fawā’ih al Jalāl- ‘Fragrance of Beauty & Revelations of the Magestic’ by Nijm al-Dīn Kubrā.
- A special Award from the International Academy of Learning in 1996 for his academic corpus.

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Iraj Pezeshkzad

Iraj Pezeshkzad (1928 in Tehran - 12 January 2022 in Los Angeles) was an Iranian writer and author of the famous Persian novel "Dā'i Jān Napoleon" (دایی جان ناپلئون) (Uncle Napoleon, translated as "My Uncle Napoleon") published in the early 1970s.

Iraj Pezeshkzad was educated in Iran and France where he received his degree in Law. He served as a judge in the Iranian Judiciary for five years prior to joining the Iranian Foreign Service. He began writing in the early 1950s by translating the works of Voltaire and Molière into Persian and by writing short stories for magazines. His novels include "Haji Mam-ja'far in Paris", and "Mashalah Khan in the Court of Haroun al-Rashid". He has also written several plays and various articles on the Irania

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Azher Jirjees

Iraqi author

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Mohamed Samir Nada (محمد سمير ندا)

عن المؤلف

محمد سمير ندا، مصريّ الجنسية، ولد في مدينة بغداد عام ١٩٧٨، وقضى سنوات الطفولة الأولى في بلاد الرافدين، لتتشكّل طفولته على إيقاعات الحرب العراقيّة الإيرانيّة. عادت أسرته لتستقرّ في مصر في القترة بين عاميّ ١٩٨٤ و١٩٩٠. عقب ذلك شدّ والديه الرحال مجدّدًا، غربًا هذه المرّة، ليقضي مرحلة صباه في طرابلس-ليبيا، حتّى عادت أسرته لتستقرّ في مصر مجدّدًا عام ١٩٩٦.

تخرّج في كليّة التجارة، وعمل محاسبًا في المجال السياحي، حتّى استقرّ به الحال في منصب ماليّ وإداريّ في إحدى الشركات العاملة في مجال السياحة والمطاعم. له أخّين هو الأوسط بينهما. متزوّج منذ عام ٢٠٠٨، ولديه ولدين.

والده هو سمير ندا (١٩٣٨-٢٠١٣)، الأديب المصري المتفرّد الذي لمع نجمه في ستينيّات القرن الماضي، وقدّم للأدب المصري قامات أدبية شابة آنذاك؛ مثل جمال الغيطاني ويوسف القعيد وغيرهما. كما

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Jalila Alsayed

في الذاكرة ندبة، أكتب لأتوهم نسيانها.
صدر لي
رواية أنا لست لي
ورواية مدن الحليب والثلج

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Bothayna Al-Essa

Bothayna El Essa (Arabic: بثينة العيسى) is a novelist from Kuwait. A well-known author in modern Arabic literature, her novel The Book Censor's Library was longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction in their category for translated literature.

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Rajaa Alsanea

Rajaa Alsanea (Arabic: رجاء الصانع‎; variant spelling Rajaa al-Sanea)is a Saudi writer who became famous through her novel Girls of Riyadh, or Banat al-Riyadh. The book was first published in Lebanon in 2005 and in English in 2007. The book was long-listed for the Dublin Literary Award in 2009. Al-Sanea grew up in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the daughter of a family of doctors. She currently lives in Chicago where she is a dental graduate student. She received her bachelor's degree in Dentistry from King Saud University in 2005. Her novel and lifestyle have caused controversy especially among the conservative sections of the Saudi society, but more liberal-minded individuals consider her a role model.

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Dawn Anahid MacKeen

Dawn Anahid MacKeen is an award-winning journalist who spent nearly a decade on her grandfather's story. Previously, she covered health and social issues for Salon, SmartMoney, and Newsday, where her investigative series on assisted living facilities' poor care helped prompt legislative reform. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Elle, the Sunday Times Magazine (London), the Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere. She lives in Southern California.

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Colin Thubron

Colin Thubron, CBE FRSL is a Man Booker nominated British travel writer and novelist.

In 2008, The Times ranked him 45th on their list of the 50 greatest postwar British writers. He is a contributor to The New York Review of Books, The Times, The Times Literary Supplement and The New York Times. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages. Thubron was appointed a CBE in the 2007 New Year Honours. He is a Fellow and, as of 2010, President of the Royal Society of Literature.

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Maha Gargash

Maha Gargash was born in Dubai. She has a Bachelors degree in Radio/Television from the George Washington University in Washington D.C. and a Masters from Goldsmiths’ College in London. In 1985, she joined Dubai Television to pursue her interest in documentaries. It was a field that provided extensive travel opportunities and opened many doors. Through her programmes, which focus mainly on traditional Arab societies, she became involved in research and scriptwriting, which evolved into her first novel, The Sand Fish (Oct/Nov 2009).

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Maha Gargash is a woman of many talents. As well as researching, scripting, directing and fronting Arabesque, the cultural series on Dubai TV, she rides horses, plays the piano

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Joseph A. Massad

Joseph Andoni Massad is Professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. His academic work has focused on Palestinian, Jordanian, and Israeli nationalism.

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Jan Dost

Jan Dost (جان دۆست) romannivîs, helbestvan, wergêr û nivîskarekî kurd e.
Ew di 12'ê adarê sala 1965 an de li bajarê Kobanî hatiye dinyayê. Xwendina xwe heta lîseyê li Kobanî qedandiye. Ji sala 1985 an heta 1988an li zanîngeha Helebê fakulta zanistê beşê Biyolojiyê xwend, lê temam nekir.
Jan Dost di dehsaliya xwe de dest bi nivîsîna helbestên erebî kir paşê ji panzdesalî de qulipî zimanê kurdî. Çîroka wî ya yekem Xewna Şewitî sala 1993 an di pêşbirka kurteçîroka Kurdî de li Sûriyê xelata yekem stand. her weha li Tirkiyê jî li ser sehneyê hate lîstin. ji bilî wê çîrokê, jan Dost çend çîrokên din j nivîsandine, wek Mistek ax ku sala 2007 an li Almanyayê bû kurtefilmek, û rûyekî şêrîn û hinin din.
Her weha gelek helbest û lêkolîn bi erebî û kurdî

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Jasvinder Sanghera

Jasvinder Sanghera is an activist and advocate for women's rights who was born in Derby. She is the co-founder of Karma Nirvana, a community-based project where there are a group of refuge centers in the United Kingdom for South Asian women fleeing forced marriages. A victim of a forced marriage herself, she tells her story and those of other British victims in her novel "Shame", published by Hodder and Stoughton.

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Deepak Unnikrishnan

Deepak Unnikrishnan is a writer from Abu Dhabi and a resident of the States, who has lived in Teaneck, New Jersey, Brooklyn, New York and Chicago, Illinois. He has studied and taught at the Art Institute of Chicago and presently teaches at New York University Abu Dhabi. Temporary People, his first book, was the inaugural winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing.

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Marie-Elena John

Marie-Elena John is a Caribbean writer.

She was born and raised in Antigua and is a former development specialist of the African Development Foundation, the World Council of Churches’ Program to Combat Racism, and Global Rights (formerly the International Human Rights Law Group), where she worked in support of the pro-democracy movement in Nigeria and in the Democratic Republic of Congo. She is known especially for her work in the United Nations and at local and national levels to raise awareness about the denial of inheritance rights to women.

Marie-Elena John made history in 1986 as the first Black woman valedictorian of New York's City College (CCNY). She later earned a Masters of International Affairs from Columbia University, specializin

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Homeira Qaderi

Homeira Qaderi is an Afghan writer, activist and educator. Her name is also written in English as Homeyra. She was born in Kabul, Afghanistan during the Russian occupation to an artist mother and a father who is a high school teacher.

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Tariq Ali

Tariq Ali (Punjabi, Urdu: طارق علی) is a British-Pakistani historian, novelist, filmmaker, political campaigner, and commentator. He is a member of the editorial committee of the New Left Review and Sin Permiso, and regularly contributes to The Guardian, CounterPunch, and the London Review of Books.

He is the author of several books, including Can Pakistan Survive? The Death of a State (1991) , Pirates Of The Caribbean: Axis Of Hope (2006), Conversations with Edward Said (2005), Bush in Babylon (2003), and Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity (2002), A Banker for All Seasons (2007) and the recently published The Duel (2008).

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Sabyn Javeri

Sabyn Javeri was born in Pakistan and now lives between London and Karachi, where she teaches Creative Writing at the university level. A graduate of the University of Oxford, she has a PhD from the University of Leicester. Her short stories have been published in literary journals such as The South Asian Review, The London Magazine, The Oxonian Review, Wasafiri, Trespass, Bengal Lights, Sugar Mule and in award-winning anthologies and creative writing text books. She has also received the Oxonion Review Short Story Award and was shortlisted for the first Tibor Jones Award.

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كريمة أحداد, Karima Ahdad

روائية وصحافية مغربية مقيمة بإسطنبول. وُلدت بمدينة الحسيمة شمال المغرب عام 1993. عمِلت في مجال الصحافة المكتوبة والرقمية داخل وخارج المغرب منذ عام 2014.
حاصلة على الإجازة في الإعلام والاتصال من المعهد العالي للإعلام والاتصال بالرباط عام 2014، وعلى ماستر في الاتصال السياسي من نفس المعهد عام 2017.
الإصدارات:
ـ نزيف آخر الحلم: مجموعة قصصية حاصلة على جائزة اتحاد كتاب المغرب للأدباء الشباب عام 2015.
ـ بنات الصبّار: رواية صادرة عن دار الفنك للنشر عام 2018، وحاصلة على جائزة محمد زفزاف للرواية عام 2019. وهي الآن قيد الترجمة إلى اللغة الإنجليزية
ـ حلمٌ تركي: رواية صادرة عن المركز الثقافي العربي عام 2021.
ـ المرأة الأخرى: صادرة عن منشورات المتوسط 2024

Karima Ahdad is a journalist and author from the city of El Hoceima, Morocco, who worked as a journalist

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Lorene Cary

Lorene Cary (born 1956, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American author, educator, and social activist.

Cary grew up in a working-class neighborhood in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1972, she was invited to the elite St. Paul's boarding school in New Hampshire, on scholarship, entering in St. Paul's second year of co-education as one of the less than ten African-American female students. She spent two years at St. Paul's, graduating in 1974. She earned an undergraduate degree and her MA from the University of Pennsylvania in 1978.
She was awarded a Thouron Fellowship, enabling her to study at the Sussex University in the United Kingdom, where she received an MA in Victorian literature.

After finishing college, Cary worked in publishing for

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Chiara Comito

Chiara Comito, arabista, è laureata in Lingue e in Relazioni e istituzioni di Asia e Africa. Nel 2012 ha fondato Editoriaraba, il principale sito web italiano sulla letteratura araba contemporanea. Ha scritto per diverse testate “Internazionale”, “Vice”, “Arab Media Report”. Lavora come analista geopolitica occupandosi di Medio Oriente e collabora con festival letterari e del cinema, case editrici, librerie e biblioteche per promuovere la cultura araba.

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Ahdaf Soueif

Ahdaf Soueif (Arabic: أهداف سويف) is an Egyptian short story writer, novelist and political and cultural commentator. She was educated in Egypt and England - studied for a PhD in linguistics at the University of Lancaster.

Her novel The Map of Love (1999) was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and subsequently translated into 21 languages. Soueif writes primarily in English, but her Arabic-speaking readers say they can hear the Arabic through the English. Along with in-depth and sensitive readings of Egyptian history and politics, Soueif also writes about Palestinians in her fiction and non-fiction. A shorter version of "Under the Gun: A Palestinian Journey" was originally published in The Guardian and then printed in full in Soueif's re

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Jamil Ahmad

Jamil Ahmad was one of the few English writers of Pakistani origin to have garnered attention outside his country. Though his body of work was small and limited to one book, the Wandering Falcon and a short story, The Sins of the Mother, he is considered as a major writer among Pakistani writers of English fiction.

Jamil Ahmad was born in Punjab, in the erstwhile undivided India, in 1931. After early education in Lahore, he joined the civil service in 1954,and worked in the Swat valley, a remote Hindu Kush area, near Afghan border. During his career, he worked at various remote areas such as the Frontier Province, Quetta, Chaghi, Khyber and Malakand. He served for two decades among the nomadic tribes who inhabit one of the world’s harshest a

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Moni Mohsin

Mohsin grew up in Lahore, and describes herself as being from a family of "educated, westernised people". When General Zia ul-Haq came to power in a coup in 1977, her family began to feel less comfortable in the new, religious Pakistan, where political repression against nonconformists became routine, but remained in Lahore. Mohsin left Pakistan at 16 to study at a boarding school in England, and later attended Cambridge University, where she studied anthropology and archaeology. Afterward she returned to Pakistan, where she founded the country's first nature magazine. After General Zia's death she moved more decisively into the public sphere, working for the independent "Friday Times", where she rose to the ranks of features editor.

Her boo

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Ronald de Sousa

Ronald Bon de Sousa Pernes is a Canadian philosopher and academic. Wikipedia

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Outhine Bounyavong

Outhine Bounyavong (Lao: ອຸທິນ ບຸນຍາວົງ ʻUthin Bunyāvong) was a Laotian writer, known especially for works of contemporary fiction.

Born in 1942 in Xaignabouli Province, he grew up in the capital, Vientiane, where one of his early teachers was Somchine Nginn, author of the first novel in Lao.

Outhine held a variety of jobs during the 1960s, and began to publish short fictional works in newspapers and magazines. He came to be associated with the group of writers who were the children of Maha Sila Viravong, an important Laotian scholar. Eventually he married one of this group, Duangdeuane Viravong, a prominent author in her own right.

Outhine worked during the Laotian Civil War and, after the Communist victory in 1975, continued to write for the

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Mai Al-Nakib

Mai Al-Nakib is the author of An Unlasting Home, a novel published by Mariner Books/HarperCollins in 2022. Her collection of short stories, The Hidden Light of Objects, published by Bloomsbury, won the Edinburgh International Book Festival's First Book Award in 2014. Her short stories have appeared in various publications, including, Ninth Letter, The First Line, After the Pause, and World Literature Today. She holds a PhD in English from Brown University and teaches English and comparative literature at Kuwait University.

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Luís Cardoso

Luís Cardoso nasceu no Timor-Leste. Formou-se em silvicultura pelo Instituto Superior de Agronomia de Lisboa e fez pós-graduação em Direito e Política do Ambiente pela Universidade Lusófona. Foi representante do Conselho Nacional da Resistência Maubere em Lisboa. É autor de Crónica de uma travessia (1997), Olhos de coruja, olhos de gato bravo (2002) e A última morte do coronel Santiago (2003). Requiem para o navegador solitário (2007) é seu primeiro livro publicado no Brasil. Suas obras já foram traduzidas para vários idiomas, como o alemão, francês, holandês, inglês e sueco.

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Katrina Tuvera

Katrina Tuvera is a Filipino author, creative writing professor, and communications specialist known for her award-winning novels and short story collections. Her works often explore Philippine history, politics, and culture. Tuvera has authored several novels, including The Jupiter Effect (2006), set during the Philippine martial law years, and The Collaborators (2022), which examines complicity in Philippine history from World War II to the turn of the millennium. Her writing has earned her a National Book Award from the Manila Critics Circle for both Testament and Other Stories and The Jupiter Effect, as well as a Carlos Palanca Memorial Award and a Philippines Graphic Award for Literature.

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Lucy H. Spelman

Dr. Lucy Spelman is a zoo and wildlife veterinarian and author. Her work experience includes nearly ten years with the Smithsonian's National Zoo, half as staff veterinarian, and half as its director. She joined the Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project in October 2006 as its Africa-based regional manager. Dr. Lucy enjoys sharing her work with others through all forms of media. She and Dr. Ted Mashima are the co-editors of "The Rhino with Glue-On Shoes", and she contributed the story that gives the book its title. For Lucy's full bio and more about the book, go to:
www.drlucyspelman.com"

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Robert Solé

Robert Solé is a French journalist and novelist of Egyptian origin. Born in Cairo in 1946, Solé moved to France at the age of 18. He has served as ombudsman of the Parisian newspaper Le Monde. His works of fiction include Le Tarbouche (winner of the Prix Mediterranée in 1992) and La Mamelouka.

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Wajdi Al-Ahdal

(Arabic: وجدي الأهدل)
Wajdi al-Ahdal (وجدي الأهدل) (born 1973) is a Yemeni novelist, short story writer and playwright. He was born near Bajil in the province of Al Hudaydah and studied at the University of Sanaa. Ahdal has published four novels, four collections of short stories, a play and a film screenplay.

In 2002-03, Ahdal's novel Qawarib Jabaliya (Mountain Boats) created a considerable amount of controversy in Yemen and he was forced to leave the country due to threats from radical conservatives. He spent some time in Lebanon before returning to Yemen. A more recent novel The Quarantine Philosopher was nominated for the Arab Booker Prize in 2008. In 2010, Ahdal was selected as one of the Beirut39, a group of 39 Arab writers under the ag

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