About the Author
Caline Nasrallah is a Master’s student at the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University, where her research focuses on language as a feminist tool. She also works as a translator, mostly from Arabic to English, and has an MA in Translation from the École de traducteurs et d’interprètes de Beyrouth (USJ).
Malek Abisaab is Associate Professor at McGill University in the departments of History and Classical Studies and the Institute of Islamic Studies. A historian, his work focuses on gender, labor, Islamism, and the nation-state in the Middle East. His books include, Militant Women of a Fragile Nation (Syracuse UP, 2010) and (with Rula Jurdi Abisaab) The Shiites of Lebanon: Modernism, Communism, and Hizbullah’s Islamists (Syracuse UP, 2017).
Michelle Hartman is Professor of Arabic Literature and Director of the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University. She is also a literary translator from Arabic to English and has translated more than a dozen novels, short story collections, and other pieces by Arab women writers. Her most recent translations published by Interlink include, Shahla Ujayli’s Summer with the Enemy and A Sky So Close to Us, Radwa Ashour’s The Journey, and Jana Elhassan’s All the Women Inside Me.