participants

Susan Muaddi Darraj
Director of Publishing

Susan Muaddi Darraj won an American Book Award for her novel-in-stories, A Curious Land. It also earned the 2016 Arab American Book […]

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Zaina Arafat

Zaina Arafat is a Palestinian-American writer. Her debut novel, You Exist Too Much, was selected as an Indie Next Pick for June, […]

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Zaha Hassan

Zaha Hassan is a human rights lawyer and visiting fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Her research focus is on […]

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Yafa Jarrar

Yafa Jarrar is a Palestinian human rights lawyer living in Ottawa. Yafa was born in Jerusalem and raised in Ramallah, Palestine. She […]

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Wafa Ghnaim

Wafa Ghnaim is an American-born Palestinian businesswoman, writer, and artist. She created her artistic initiative, Tatreez & Tea, in 2015, to teach […]

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Voulette Hattar

My name is Voulette and I am a student at UC Berkeley studying Ethnic Studies and Arabic. I was born in Amman […]

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Vivien Sansour

Vivien Sansour is an artist and conservationist who uses image, sketch, film, soil, seeds, and plants to enliven old cultural tales in […]

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Victoria Brittain

Victoria Brittain is a journalist and author who has lived and worked in Saigon, Algiers, Nairobi, London and Washington. She has reported […]

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Tom Suárez

Author and musician Tom Suárez is best known for his 2016 book, State of Terror, “the first comprehensive and structured analysis of […]

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Tariq Luthun

Tariq Luthun is a Detroit-born Palestinian community organizer, data consultant, and Emmy Award-winning poet from Detroit, MI. He earned his MFA in […]

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