Ibtisam Azem Author

Ibtisam Azem is a Palestinian novelist and journalist. She is the author of Sariq al-Nawm (The Sleep Thief). She lives in New York.

Sinan Antoon is a poet, novelist, translator, and scholar. He is associate professor at New York University's Gallatin School. His translation of Mahmoud Darwish’s In the Presence of Absence won the 2012 National Translation Award.