Alan Dowty is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. He is author of The Jewish State: A Century Later and Israel/Palestine.
Colum McCann is the author of six novels and three collections of stories. His most recent novel, TransAtlantic, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013, and his previous novel, Let the Great World Spin, won the National Book Award, the...
George Abraham is a diasporic Palestinian writer and Bioengineering PhD candidate at Harvard University. He is a Kundiman fellow and winner of the 2018 Cosmonauts Avenue Poetry prize. Their first full-length poetry collection, Birthright, is...
Ibtisam Azem is a Palestinian short story writer, novelist, and journalist, based in New York. She is a senior correspondent for the Arabic daily al-Araby al-Jadeed. She has published two novels in Arabic. Some of her writings have been translated...
Born in Jerusalem, in 1942, Kamal Boullata has created a body of work in which the Palestinian identity and the conditions of exile form the basis of his artistic explorations.Early in his career, Boullata developed a distinct...
Menachem Klein teaches in the Department of Political Science, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and was a team member of the Geneva Initiative Negotiations in 2003. He has advised both the Israeli government and the Israeli delegation for...
Nathalie Handal is from Bethlehem. She was raised in Latin America, France and the Middle East, and educated in Asia, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Claire Messud writes, she “illuminates the luxuriance and longing of...
Rajie Cook is an internationally recognized graphic designer, artist, and activist—and the son of Najeeb and Jaleela Cook from Ramallah, Palestine. In 1967, he cofounded Cook and Shanosky Associates, Inc., a design firm, in New York City. He...
Rawia Bishara is a Palestinian-American who opened a Middle Eastern restaurant, Tanoreen in Brooklyn in 1988. As chef of the highly rated restaurant and through her cookbooks she has aimed to recreate the flavours of her mother’s cooking and...
Sami Tamimi was born and raised in Jerusalem and was immersed in food from childhood. He started his career as commis-chef in a Jerusalem hotel and worked his way up, through many restaurants and ethnic traditions, to become head chef of Lilith,...
