Rana Issa is a writer, translator and cultural producer focusing on literary and contemporary artistic practices entangled with Arabic cultural history. She is the artistic director of Masahat: Spaces for Arab Culture in Exile. She works at the intersection between public humanities, activist engagements and academic curiosity. Rana’s work has appeared in leading journals, platforms and presses, and it encompasses theoretical, literary, translational and historical genres and modes of writing. Rana has collaborated with international artists from the region in the fields of film, performance arts, visual arts and sculpture. Her book The Modern Arabic Bible was published this year by Edinburgh University Press.