SAMIH AL-QASIM (1939-2014) was the author of over thirty books of poetry, several novels, collections of plays, essays, and criticism. He appeared regularly at literary festivals throughout the Arab world and in Europe, his work has been translated into many languages, and editions of his collected poems have been published in Beirut and in Cairo. NAZIH KASSIS is a lexicographer and translator of contemporary Arabic prose and poetry. He received his doctorate in linguistics from the University of Exeter and has compiled, edited, and translated several dictionaries. He has taught English and Arabic at the University of Haifa, the Academic Arab College for Education, and Portland State University. He writes poetry in the local dialect. Born in the Palestinian village of Iqrit in 1944, he has lived in Rama since 1948. ADINA HOFFMAN's books include My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century (Yale University Press) and Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City (FSG). She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and was one of the inaugural winners of the Windham Campbell prize. ROBYNCRESWELL is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University. He is the translator of TheThreshold (Farrar,Straus &Giroux, 2022) and author of City of Beginnings:PoeticModernism in Beirut (2019). His work has earned the Gaddis Smith International Book Prize and the 2023 National Translation Award in Poetry.