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Fathieh Saudi is a poet, author and translator. After completing her medical studies in France she worked as a paediatrician with Palestinian refugees and disadvanteged children in the Middle East, publishing her memoirs about that period in French and Arabic. Her recent published poetry collections include: Prophetic Children, Daughter of the Thames (a semi autobiographical collection drawing on issues of identity, trauma, exile, and hope), and Bint Alnaher (in Arabic). Fathieh is the recipient of several awards and decoration for her social, humanitarian and cultural work, notably the Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Merite.

Malika Booker is a British writer and poet of Guyanese and Grenadian parentage, whose work has been widely published in anthologies and journals, and who has represented British writing internationally. Her first stage work Absolution was commissioned by The Austrian Cultural Institute and Apples & Snakes. Her pamphlet Breadfruit was published by Flipped Eye in 2008, and her collection Pepper Seed (Peepal Tree Press 2013) was longlisted for the OCM Bocas 2014 Literary Prize and shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre 2014 Prize for best first full collection. She was the inaugural Poet in Residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company.