Akram Musallam

Akram Musallam was born in Talfit near Nablus in the West Bank in 1972. He graduated from the department of letters and holds an MA in International Studies from the University of Birzeit. He writes for the daily al-Ayyam and is editor of the political quarterly al-Siyasa. The original Arabic edition of The Dance of the Deep-Blue Scorpion won the A. M. Qattan Award in 2008 and has been translated in French (Actes Sud) and Italian (Il Sirente).