Nora Nagi

Nora Nagi is a prolific novelist from Egypt. She is the author of Bana [Pana] (2015), Al-Jedar [The Wall] (2016), Banat al-Basha [The Pasha’s Daughters] (2017), shortlisted for the 2018 Sawiris Prize; Sanawat al-Jari fi al-Makan [Years of Running in Place] (2022) as well as a collection of interviews, Al-Katibat Wa al-Wihda [Women Writers and Unity] (2019), all published by Dar Al-Shorouk. Her latest novel Atyaaf Kamilla [Spectres of Camelia] (Dar Al-Shorouk, 2020), won the Haqqi Award and was shortlisted for the Sawiris Cultural Award for Best Fiction Nominee for Young Writers. Nagi has also worked as an editor for the women’s pages in several Egyptian and Arab newspapers and websites.

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.