Sawad Hussain is an award-winning Arabic-English literary translator. She co-teaches a workshop on translating Arabic comics at UK secondary schools via the collective Shadow Heroes.
Her recent translations include the Palestinian resistance...
Alan Waddams worked for 35 years with the EU in economic and diplomatic posts in numerous places, including five and a half years as EU Ambassador in Syria in the nineties.
Practically all the countries he served in were Muslim, from Kazakhstan...
Nur Masalha is a Palestinian writer and historian. He is currently a Member of the Centre for Palestine Studies, SOAS, University of London.
Previously, Masalha was a Professor of Religion and Politics and Director of the Centre for Religion...
Victoria Brittain is an author and journalist who has lived for many years in Africa and Asia, and has been visiting the West Bank and Gaza for 30 years. She is a former associate foreign editor of The Guardian and a contributor over many...
Haifa Zangana is an Iraqi author and activist.
Among her books: Women on a Journey: Between Baghdad and London, Dreaming of Baghdad and City of widows: an Iraqi woman account of war and resistance. She edited "Party for Thaera;...
Afaf Jabiri is a Senior Lecturer at the University of East London. From 2013- 2017, she held the posts of Senior Teaching Fellow at the Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS and Fellow at the LSE Gender Institute. Her research focuses on gender in...
Literary critic, political commentator, and translator. Born 1951, in Kamichli, Syria, he graduated from Damascus University and continued higher studies in France and the UK.
Recent publications include: "The Novel and the Archive: How History...
