Contributors

Manal Abu Haq is a clinical social worker, psychotherapist, and psychotherapy supervisor in private practice in Ramla and working in a public clinic with people diagnosed with severe mental health disorders. She is an activist against Zionist oppression and violence toward Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. She writes and lectures on the Palestinian subject and the Nakba.

Dr. Mohamed Omran Abu Shawish is Clinical Psychologist/MHPSS Specialist, Head of Gaza Trauma Therapy Institute.

Ornella Antar is a Lebanese writer and journalist living in Los Angeles. For the past thirteen years she has worked as a journalist, reporting and breaking news for some of the most prominent newspapers in the Middle East, notably L'Orient-Le Jour. In 2022, she launched her own digital storytelling magazine, Majaz, with the mission of building an archive of people's emotions through slow journalism and literary nonfiction.

Max Beshers, LCSW, is passionate about applying psychoanalytic ideas to issues of race and identity in order to build an equitable world. Over the past twenty years he has been involved in projects such as facilitating white anti-racism reading groups, teaching prison abolition workshops, and engaging in local activism to end police violence. He has a private practice in Chicago and specializes in working with LGBTQ+ adults and couples. His clinical interests include trauma, identity formation, and group relations. He is affiliated with the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis, where he leads consultation groups for new clinicians.

Nandini Bhattacharya‘s first novel, Love's Garden, was published in 2020. She has shorter work published or forthcoming in Bellevue Literary Review, River Styx, The Rumpus, Notre Dame Review, PANK, Oyster River Pages, The Bombay Review, and more. She has attended the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and been accepted for residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, DISQUIET: Dzanc Books International Literary Program, Ragdale Artists' Resid