Salah Badis

Salah Badis is an author from Algeria. He published the collection of poetry Ḍajar̊ ạlbawạkẖir̊   [The Boredom of Ships] (Al Mutawassit, 2016), followed by his collection of short stories, Hadẖihi ạumwruⁿ taḥ̊dutẖ̊ [Things That Happen] (Al Mutawassit, 2019), and its subsequent translation into French, Des Choses qui Arrivent, in 2023. His poems and essays have been translated into English, French, and Turkish, and have appeared in The Markaz Review; Critical Muslim, and The Funambulist, among others. A founding member of Nafha magazine, he is a journalist, music editor, and a cultural researcher for print and radio. Badis also translates from French into Arabic. Among the authors he has translated are Joseph Andras, Eric Vuillard, and Jean Sénac.

Saliha Haddad is an Algerian writer, literary interviewer, and translator. Her work was published in Agbowo, Ubwali Magazine, The Markaz Review, The New Arab, Newlines Magazine and Africa in Dialogue. In 2021 she was shortlisted for the African Writers Awards and in 2022 she was awarded first place in the inaugural ANTOA literary contest for fiction.