bell hooks (deliberately in lower-case; born Gloria Jean Watkins) was an African-American author, feminist, and social activist. Her writing focused on the interconnectivity of race, class, and gender…
Abdul Rahman bin Ibrahim al-Munif, also known as Abdelrahman Munif, was a novelist, short story writer, memoirist, journalist, thinker, and cultural critic. He is considered one of the most significan…
Basem Khandaqji (Arabic: باسم خندقجي) is a Palestinian writer, journalist, and prisoner, was born in 1983. His novel A Mask, the Color of the Sky won the Arabic Booker Prize in 2024.
Sandrine Collette was born in Paris in 1970. She divides her time between Nanterre, where she teaches philosophy and literature, and Burgundy, where she has a horse stud farm. She is the author of num…
French-Rwandan Gaël Faye is an author, composer and hip hop artist. He was born in 1982 in Burundi, and has a Rwandan mother and French father. In 1995, after the outbreak of the civil war and the Rwa…
Mourid Barghouti is a Palestinian poet and writer. He has published 12 books of poetry, the last of which is Muntasaf al-Lail (Midnight). His Collected Works came out in Beirut in 1997. In 2000 he was…
Ghassan Kanafani was a Palestinian journalist, fiction writer, and a spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Kanafani died at th…
Nasser Abu Srour is a Palestinian writer serving a life sentence in Israeli prison. Born in 1969 in a refugee camp near Bethlehem, he was sentenced to life in prison in 1993 after confessing — apparen…
Lisa Ridzén (b.1988) is a doctoral student in sociology, researching masculinity norms in the rural communities of the Swedish far north, where she herself was raised and now lives in a small village …
