Sasha Moujaes

Born and raised in Beirut, Sasha Moujaes moved to France and completed the Middle Eastern and Mediterranean program at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po). She then joined a dual research program at the same university and at the National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO). She specialized in comparative politics and Arab studies, focusing on the crossover between art and urban transformation. Today, as a member of the Lebanese diaspora working in the French cultural sector, she nurtures a strong passion for the arts and culture from the SWANA/MENA region.

Jordan Elgrably is an American, French and Moroccan writer and translator whose stories and creative nonfiction have appeared in many anthologies and reviews, including Apulée, Salmagundi, and the Paris Review. Editor-in-chief and founder of The Markaz Review, he is the cofounder and former director of the Levantine Cultural Center/The Markaz in Los Angeles (2001–2020). He is the editor of Stories From the Center of the World: New Middle East Fiction (City Lights, 2024), and co-editor with Malu Halasa of Sumūd: a New Palestinian Reader (Seven Stories, 2025). Based in Montpellier, France and California, he tweets @JordanElgrably.