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Randa Abdel-Fattah is the award-winning author of eleven novels. She writes across a wide range of genres and actively seeks to translate her academic work into creative interventions which reshape dominant narratives around race, human rights, multiculturalism and identity in popular culture.
Tony Birch is the author of three novels: the bestselling The White Girl, winner of the 2020 NSW Premier’s Award for Indigenous Writing, and shortlisted for the 2020 Miles Franklin literary prize; Ghost River, winner of the 2016 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Indigenous Writing; and Blood, which was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award in 2012.
Samah speaks with Mohammed Massoud Morsi, who spent almost two decades as a freelance journalist and photographer immersed in communities with forgotten people and conflicts around the world. He is the author of three novels and five non-fiction books, his latest novel is The Palace of Angels.
Susan Abulhawa is a novelist, poet and activist. Her debut novel, Mornings in Jenin (Bloomsbury, 2010), was an international bestseller translated into 32 languages, making her one of the most widely read Arab author of all time. Her second novel, The Blue Between Sky and Water (Bloomsbury, 2015), was likewise translated into 20 languages. Her third novel, Against the Loveless World, was recently published by Atria, an imprint of Simon & Schuster in August 2020.