Saleem Haddad

is a novelist, screenwriter, and essayist currently based in Lisbon, with roots in Amman, Beirut, and London. His award-winning debut novel, Guapa, was published in 2016 and translated into nine languages, and his second novel Floodlines, was published in 2026 and was listed by The New Yorker as one of the best books of the year so far. He is the Fiction Editor at The Markaz Review.