Sayed Kashua was born in 1975 and is the author of the novels Dancing Arabs, Let It Be Morning, which was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and Second Person Singular, winner of the prestigious Bemstein Prize. Kashua writes a weekly column for Haaretz and is the creator of the prize-winning sitcom, Arab Labor.

Dr Ariel Kahn is a novelist and Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Middlesex University, where he runs the Creative Writing and Drama programmes. His novel, Raising Sparks, was shortlisted for The Guardian’s Not the Booker Prize. He is an Affiliated Artist with the Woolf Interfaith Institute at Cambridge University, and writes on Jewish artists from a feminist perspective.