Penulis: Ibtisam Azem

Ibtisam Azem is a Palestinian short story writer, novelist, and journalist, based in New York. She works as a senior correspondent covering the United Nations for the Arabic daily al-Araby al-Jadeed. She is also co-editor at Jadaliyya e-zine. She has published two novels in Arabic. She is currently working on a collection of short stories. Sinan Antoon is a poet, novelist, translator, and scholar. He is associate professor at New York University”s Gallatin School. His translation of Mahmoud Darwish’s In the Presence of Absence won the 2012 National Translation Award.