About the Author & Translators

Amine Bit is a fourth-year student at Columbia University studying Comparative Literature and Society, working in Arabic, English, and French. He serves as the Events Editor of The Columbia Review.

Hoda Ali is a Columbia University graduate.

Ameer Hamad is a Palestinian poet, short story writer, and translator based in Jerusalem. His work has been published in numerous publications, including Beirut Literature Magazine, The New Arab, and ArabLit, amongst others. In 2019, Ameer was awarded the Qattan Foundation’s Young Writer of the Year Award, and Gigi and Ali’s Rabbit, his prose collection, as well as I Searched for their Keys in the Locks, his poetry collection, were published in 2022.

Gabrielle Alvarez is a fourth-year student at Columbia University studying English Literature and Arabic.

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