Authors

Mohammad Malas was born in 1945 in Quneitra, Syria, and studied filmmaking at the Moscow Film Institute (VGIK). He is the director of twelve films and has been a key figure of Syrian auteur-cinema for the past twenty years. Much of his work...

Mohammad Sabaaneh is an award-winning cartoonist and a former political prisoner in Palestine. He is the author of White and Black and Power Born of Dreams and is a Middle East representative for the Cartoonists Rights Network International. His...

Mohammad Tarbush was born in Beit Nattif, near Jerusalem. In 1988, he became managing director at Deutsche Bank then at UBS. He is the author of several books including Reflections of a Palestinian. His writings on Palestine have...

Mohammed El-Kurd is an internationally touring and award-winning poet, writer, journalist, and organizer from Jerusalem, occupied Palestine. In 2021, He was named as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time. He is best known for...

Mohammed Massoud Morsi is an Egyptian writer who was born in 1975. He grew up in Copenhagen and has since travelled the world twice over. After working as a photojournalist for almost two decades, he turned to writing and took a turn in life,...

Mohammed Omer is an award-winning Palestinian journalist whose reporting has appeared in media outlets including the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Al Jazeera, the New Statesman, Pacifica Radio, Electronic Intifada, and the Nation. He...

Mohammed Omer has PhD in media communications. Previously at at Columbia University, Center of Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University.  Journalist reporting for numerous newspapers and journals in US, Scandinavia, and Germany,...

Mohammed Yasser Al-Batniji was born in Gaza in 2008. He has always lived in the Gaza Strip. In October 2023, he was fifteen and attending a local school in Shuja’iyya, a suburb of Gaza City, where his family lived. Since then, he and his...

Mohanad Mustafa (PhD) is a senior lecturer at the Beit Berl College, and lectures in the MA Middle East Politics program at the School of Political Science, University of Haifa. He specializes in Arab politics in Israel, political Islam, Arab...

Mona Zahed is a Palestinian chef and mother living in Gaza. Mona has always loved cooking, artfully presenting food, and helping her friends prepare for their special occasions. Prior to October 2023 she ran a successful catering business,...