Nada Faris

Mohamed Farag is a writer and journalist. His book Khitat tawilat al-aja [Long-term Plans] (Al-Ain Publishing, 2019), won the Sawiris Award for the best short story collection in the Young Writers section. It was followed by Muyawama — hayku ‘amil mu’asir [Day Labor — Haiku for a Contemporary Worker] (Elmahrousa Publishing, 2020). His most recent collection is Shay’un mah asabahu al-khalal [Something Went Wrong] (Dar Al-Maraya, 2023). He has worked as a cultural journalist in Egyptian and Arab newspapers and websites, including Akhbar Al-Adab, Al-Badil, Al-Safir, Bab Al-Motwaset, among others. For the Mursaloon website, which specilizes in North African affairs, he has worked as an editor and presently edits the Egyptian pages. He is an editor for the website, Khat 30.

Nada Faris is a writer and literary translator from Kuwait. She is the author of Fountain of Youth (Athens, Greece: Vine Leaves Press, 2016), a semi-finalist in the 2016 Vine Leaves Vignette Collection Award, and Mischief Diary (Doha, Qatar: HBKU, 2018), a young adult short story collection. She collaborated with Maha Al-Asaker on Women of Kuwait (Hillsboro, North Carolina: Daylight Books 2019), which became a finalist in the Lucie Photobook Award. And recently, Nada translated Bothayna Al-Essa’s Arabic novel Lost in Mecca, which was shortlisted for the 2024 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation and named a “Notable Translation” by World Literature Today.