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Yousef el Qedra is a young poet and playwright living in Gaza, Palestine. He holds a B.A. in Arabic literature from Al-Azhar University, Gaza. His poems have been published locally and internationally, in print and online. His four poetry collections are The Memory Is I and the Memory Is Forgotten (2001), Innocence of the Darkness (2004), You Might (2007), Her Tears Lament the Devastation (2011). He is a co-author of Outside the River's Path (2003). Since 2006, he has worked as a project coordinator of theatre and youth groups for the Cultural Free Thought Association in Gaza City, Occupied Palestine Territories. He is a founding member of the Gaza Poets Forum and the El-Bayader Cultural Forum. He teaches drama, literature, and writing. He has written, directed, and acted in several plays, and has given reading tours in the Middle East and Spain. His poems have been translated into English, French, Spanish, and Dutch.

Yasmin Snounu was born and has lived most of her life in Gaza City, Palestine. She has survived two attacks on Gaza, "CastLead" (December 2008 to January 2009) and "Pillar of Defense" (November 2012). She has worked with various non-governmental organizations in Gaza such as Palestine Save the Children, AMIDEAST, and the Union for Health Care Committees, managing educational and humanitarian projects since 2007. As a Fulbright scholar, she earned her master's degree from Eastern Michigan University in 2011, majoring in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Language), a subject she has taught in Gaza universities for the last three years. She has had poems and translations published in American magazines and anthologies. 

Edward Morin has graduate degrees in English from the University of Chicago and Loyola University Chicago. He has taught English at Wayne State University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Cincinnati. He has edited and, with Fang Dai and Dennis Ding, co-translated an anthology, The Red Azalea: Chinese Poetry since the Cultural Revolution (1990), as well as a book-length manuscript of poems by the contemporary Chinese poet Cai Qijiao. Collections of his poems include Labor Day at Walden Pond (1997) and The Dust of Our City (1978). He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Yasser Tabbaa has graduate degrees in anthropology and art history of the Middle East. He has curated antiquities in museums in two Arab countries and has also been a teaching and publishing scholar for over two decades at American Universities, including the University of Texas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Michigan, and New York University in Abu Dhabi. His books include The Translation of Islamic Art During the Sunni Revival (University of Washington Press, 2002) and Constructions of Power and Piety in Medieval Aleppo (Penn State University Press, 1996).