M. Muhannad Ayyash was born and raised in Silwan, Al-Quds (Jerusalem), before immigrating to Canada, where he is now an associate professor of sociology at Mount Royal University. He is the author of A Hermeneutics of Violence (UTP, 2019) and has written opinion pieces ...
Beatrice Loayza is associate web editor at the Criterion Collection. She writes about film and culture for the New York Times, Film Comment, Reverse Shot, and other publications.
Madeline Cash is a writer from Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in The Literary Review, Flaunt Magazine, and Maudlin House among others. She runs a reading series called Forever. Find her on Instagram @madelinecash
Adeeba Shahid Talukder is a Pakistani American poet, singer, and translator of Urdu and Persian poetry. Her debut collection, Shahr-e-jaanaan: The City of the Beloved (Tupelo Press, 2020), was awarded the Kundiman Poetry Prize.
Theo Whitcomb is a journalist based in Oregon. His work has appeared in Undark Magazine, where he writes about environmental science and natural-resource politics.
Alex de Waal is the Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation and a research professor at the Fletcher School, Tufts University. He is an expert on the Horn of Africa, humanitarian issues, and famine. He has worked on Ethiopia and its neighbors since the mid-1980s and is ...
Britt Stigler is a New York City-based arts, culture, and performance writer and editor. She co-runs Ballerina Book Club for WNET, New York Public Media’s ALL ARTS.