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Refqa Abu-Remaileh is Professor of Modern Arabic Literature and Film at the Freie Universität Berlin. She led the European Research Council project PalREAD (2018–2023). She is the author of the digital interactive book, Country of Words: A Transnational Atlas for Palestinian Literature, published by Stanford University Press in 2023. She is also the creator of the Arabic-language podcast “Balad min Kalam: Conversations on Palestinian Literature” available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Himmat Zoubi is a Palestinian researcher and feminist activist. She is the Research Director at Mada Al-Carmel - Arab Center for Applied Social Research, Haifa. She received her PhD in Sociology from Ben-Gurion University and holds two Master's degrees, one in Criminology and another in Gender Studies. Her work focuses on cities and urbanization in colonial context. She published several book chapters and articles on settler colonialism cities, Palestinian feminist movements, indigenous knowledge and resistance. Zoubi was a EUME Fellow during the academic years 2018-21. In 2021/22 she was a postdoctoral fellow of the International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies (IRGAC) at Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, associated with The Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the Freie Universität, Berlin and EUME. In the academic years 2022-24, she remains a EUME Fellow.