Suna Kafadar assistant curator for the series.

Alexa Firat is a PhD candidate in Arabic literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also a lecturer of Arabic Studies at Temple University in Philadelphia where she lives.

Rasha Salti

Samuel Shimon is an Iraqi writer (An Iraqi in Paris) and also the assistant editor at Banipal magazine and the curator of Kikah.com, a website publishing new Arabic literature in Arabic.

Fadi Toufic is a Lebanese writer and journalist who writes primarily creative non-fiction about the Middle East.

Anna Swank who holds a Master's in Near Eastern Studies from the Kevorkian Center at New York University, coordinates and translates for the ArteEast Short Stories Literary Series. She is also the founding faculty member of a new Arabic program at Friends Seminary in New York, as well as a freelance translator in the New York area.