Contributors
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Salar Abdoh is author of two novels, Opium and The Poet Game. His articles, short stories, and translations have appeared in such periodicals as the New York Times and BOMB Magazine. He teaches at City College of New York.
Moradewun Adejunmobi is a professor in the African American and African Studies Program at the University of California, Davis. She is author of JJ Rabearivelo, Literature and Lingua Franca in Colonial Madagascar, and Vernacular Palaver: Imaginations of the Local and Non-Native Languages of West Africa.
Saladin Ahmed, a native of Detroit, is a poet and fantasy fiction writer. He has published poems in The Brooklyn Review and Margie, as well as in such anthologies as Abandon Automobile: Detroit City Poetry and Inclined to Speak: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Poetry. His fiction has appeared in Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, Clockwork Phoenix 2, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. This Brooklyn resident received an MFA in poetry from Brooklyn College. He has received writing fellowships from the University of Michigan and the Bronx Council on the Arts.
Raja Alem, a native of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, is author of poems, plays, short stories, and novels, such as My Thousand & One Nights: A Novel of Mecca, and Fatma: A Novel of Arabia. She lives in Paris, France.
Muhammad Kamil Al-Khatib, born in Syria, is author of Just Like a River. He is also known for his critical and intellectual work, as well as his other novels and his short stories.
Ibrahim Al-Koni, born in Libya, is a Tuareg, who studied at the Gorky Institute in Moscow. He published his first book of stories in 1974, when he was still a student. Before moving to Switzerland in 1993, he worked as a journalist in Moscow at the Cultural Institute of Libya, and as an editor in Warsaw. He is author of numerous novels and collections of short fiction in Arabic, including A Myth of Love for Switzerland, The Divan of the Mainland and the Ocean, The Puppet, The Animists: A Modern Arabic Novel, Anubis: A Desert Novel, Gold Dust, Bleeding of the Stone, and The Seven Veils of Seth: A Modern Arabic Novel from Libya. He was awarded the 2008 Sheikh Zayed Book Award for Literature.
Marlene D. Allen is an assistant professor of English at Georgia Southwestern State University, where she teaches courses on American literature and the literature of the African Diaspora. She recently received her PhD in English from the University of Georgia.
Radwa Ashour, a native of Egypt who received her PhD in African American literature from the University of Massachusetts (Amherst), is a fiction writer, literary critic, and professor of literature at Ain Shams University in Cairo. She is author of Gharnata [Grenada], winner of the 1994 Cairo International Book Fair Book of the Year Award, and Maryama, wa al-rahil, which forms the second and third parts of a trilogy with Gharnata. Her other books of fiction include Hajar dafi, Khadija wa-Sawsan, Atyaf, Siraaj: An Arab Tale, and My Grandmother’s Cactus: Stories by Egyptian Women. Her travel memoir is entitled al-Rihla. For her achievements as a writer, she was awarded the 2007 Constantine Cavafy [End Page 1387] Prize for Literature. She is co-editor with Ferial Ghazoul and Hasna Reda-Mekdashi of Arab Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide, 1873–1999.
Gabeba Baderoon, who received her PhD in English at the University of Capetown in South Africa, is author of four books of poems: The Silence Before Speaking, The Museum of Ordinary Life, The Dream in the Next Body, and A Hundred Silences, finalist for the 2007 University of Johannesburg Prize and the 2007 Olive Schreiner Award. She has received many other citations and acknowledgements for her work, including the 2005 Daimler- Chrysler Award for South African Poetry, the Guest Writer Fellowship at the Nordic Africa Institute in Sweden, a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship in Italy, and a Writer’s Residency at the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa.
Salwa Bakr, known internationally for her novels and short stories, was born in Matariyya, Egypt, and now lives in Cairo. She is author of The Golden Chariot, The Wiles of Men, My...
