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Umar Sulaiman Al-Ashqar was a Salafi Muslim Brotherhood scholar who served as a professor in the Faculty of Islamic Law at the University of Jordan and was also the Dean of the Faculty of Islamic Law at al-Zarqa’ University, also in Jordan. Additionally, he authored a number of books on Islam, including the Islamic Creed Series. He died on August 10, 2012.

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Fady Joudah is a Palestinian-American poet and physician. He is the 2007 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition for his collection of poems The Earth in the Attic.

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Laila al-Atrash is a Palestinian/Jordanian writer and journalist. She is the author of half a dozen novels, one of which was translated into English by Nura Nuwayhid Halwani and Christopher Tingley. Atrash is also noted for her journalism, especially her documentaries on leading figures of Arabic culture. She serves as the President of PEN Jordan.

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Montaser Marai is a Palestinian - Jordanian Journalist and Documentary Filmmaker, working for Al Jazeera Channel since 2002.

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Said Al Mozayen was a Palestinian poet, who wrote the lyrics of the Palestinian national anthem.

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Kamal Butros Nasser was a Palestinian political leader, writer and poet.

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Hanaa Al-Ramli is a Jordanian-Palestinian engineer, writer, researcher, lecturer and activist in Information technology and Internet culture field. She is a consultant in the field of Internet culture education for a number of media channels, radio stations, newspapers and specialized websites.

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Nahid Munir al-Rayyis was a Palestinian politician, philanthropist, author and poet. He had formerly served as the Justice Minister of the Palestinian National Authority.

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Walid Al Shurafa is a Palestinian playwright, novelist, and media studies academic. He was born in Nablus, and now teaches at Birzeit University. Shurafa has published a play, The People's Court (1991), and two novels, Coming from the Resurrection (2013) and Heir of the Tombstones (2017). Heir of the Tombstones was shortlisted for the 2018 International Prize for Arabic Fiction. He is also the author of nonfiction books From Discourse Power to Power of Discourse, on the use of media by Al Jazeera and the Muslim Brotherhood during the Arab Spring uprisings, and Edward Said and Criticism of the Reincarnation of Orientalism, on the representation of Eastern cultures in Western media.