Najlaa Attaallah is a Palestinian author, architect, and activist, born in Gaza City in 1987. She holds a BA in architectural engineering and an MA in engineering project management from the Islamic University of Gaza. Her commitment to gender equality led her to move to Iceland, where she pursued further studies in gender and human rights at the University of Iceland. She now lives in Reykjavík with her family. In addition to her work as an architect, Najlaa runs Gaza Company, a small social enterprise that supports vulnerable women in Gaza. Her diaries from the 2014 war on Gaza-as well as a number of short stories and articles-have been translated into multiple languages and published on various international platforms. Her book Al-Soura, written for adolescents, was selected as one of the top 101 books in the Arab region by an exhibition organized by the Children's Literature Programme of the Anna Lindh Foundation.

In addition to her work as an architect, Najlaa runs Gaza Company, a small social enterprise that supports vulnerable women in Gaza. Her diaries from the 2014 war on Gaza-as well as a number of short stories and articles-have been translated into multiple languages and published on various international platforms. Her book Al-Soura, written for adolescents, was selected as one of the top 101 books in the Arab region by an exhibition organized by the Children's Literature Programme of the Anna Lindh Foundation.

Sawad Hussain graduated with an MA in modern Arabic literature from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. She was the previous cochair of Translators' Association in the United Kingdom and is committed to mentoring emerging translators. Her accolades include being shortlisted by the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation and the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation on multiple occasions, receiving several English PEN Translates grants, being longlisted by the Christopher G. Moore Foundation prize for Human Rights writing, and being selected as a finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature. She was recently translator-in-residence at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies and now lives in Cambridge, England.