Authors

Dr. Nousheen Zakaria

Dr. Nousheen Zakaria is a children’s author, educator, researcher and award-winning entrepreneur with more than 18 years of experience spanning technology, education and entrepreneurship. She holds a PhD from the University of Leeds, UK. She...

Dr. Philip Leech

Philip Leech is a senior fellow at the institute for government at the University of Ottawa, Canada, and a visiting fellow at the Kenyon Institute in Jerusalem. He has a PhD from Exeter University’s institute for Arab and Islamic Studies and...

E. Mark Windle

E. Mark Windle is a UK-based freelance writer and book author who works in the humanitarian sector. In a former 25-year career as an NHS dietitian, he specialised in the care of patients with critical illness and major burn injury. Mark’s...

Elazar Barkan

Elazar Barkan is professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University, director of the School of International and Public Affairs’ Human Rights Concentration, and director of Columbia’s Institute for the Study of Human...

Elias Sanbar

Elias Sanbar is a Palestinian historian, poet, and essayist who has taught in Lebanon and at Princeton University. He is currently the Palestinian ambassador to UNESCO.

Elie Podeh

Elie Podeh is a Bamberger and Fuld Chair in the Department of Islamic and Middle East Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a senior research fellow at the Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace. He is also a board...

Elisa Mariotti

Born in 1972, as a teenager she began to print by herself as a self-taught.​ In 2017, she joined a local photo club and began to frequent the Italian Center of Art Photography (CIFA), and became a member of Fiaf (Italian Federation of...

Elisabeth Jaquette

Elisabeth Jaquette is an award-winning translator from the Arabic, whose work includes Basma Abdel Aziz’s The Queue, Rania Mamoun’s Thirteen Months of Sunrise, and Dima Wannous’s The Frightened Ones. She is also executive...

Elissar Saleh

Elissar (Eli) Saleh is an Arab American born in Chicago with roots in Lebanon and Egypt. Her first book, Amina's Wish, is a personal reflection of her family’s experiences and her love for children’s books. Eli is passionate about...

Ella Shohat

Ella Shohat, an Arab Jew from a Baghdadi family now living in New York, is Professor of Cultural Studies and of Middle Eastern Studies, New York University. Among her many books are Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of...