Ahdaf Soueif Editor, Author & Translator

Ahdaf Soueif is the author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted The Map of Love as well as the memoir of the January 2011 revolution, Cairo: A City Transformed. She co-founded the Palestine Festival of Literature and was awarded the Hay Medal for Festivals 2017 for her work on PalFest. She is based in both Cairo and London. ahdafsoueif.com Omar Robert Hamilton is an award-winning filmmaker and writer. He co-founded the Palestine Festival of Literature and the Mosireen media collective in Cairo. He is based between Cairo and New York. orhamilton.com