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Ghayath Almadhoun (born 1979, Damascus) is a Syrian-Palestinian poet who moved to Sweden in 2008. He writes poetry and has been translated into nearly thirty languages. Almadhoun has published five collections of poetry in Arabic, the latest being Adrenalin (2017) and I Have Brought You a Severed Hand (2024), both published in Arabic by Almutawassit, Milan. In 2017, Adrenalin was translated into English by Catherine Cobham and published by Action Books, Notre Dame, IN. In 2023, Almadhoun curated and edited the poetry anthology Kontinentaldrift: Das Arabische Europa, which included thirty-one Arabic poets living in Europe, translated it into German and published it in German and Arabic with a long foreword on Arabic poetry. The anthology was published in Germany in September 2023, by Verlag Das Wunderhorn in collaboration with the Haus für Poesie, Berlin. Currently, Almadhoun lives between Berlin and Stockholm.

Catherine Cobham is head of the department of Arabic and Persian at the University of St Andrews and has translated the works of many Arab writers, including Naguib Mahfouz, Mahmoud Darwish, Fuad al-Takarli, Yusuf Idris and Hanan al-Shaykh.

Françoise Dolto (1908–1988) was a French pediatrician and psychoanalyst.

Luce deLire is a ship with eight sails and she lays off the quay. A time traveller and collector of mediocre jokes by day, when night falls, she turns into a philosopher, performer and media theorist. She loves visual art, installations, video art, etc. She could be seen curating, performing, directing, planning and publishing (on) various events. She is working on and with the philosophy of treason, infinity, post-secularism, self-destruction, fascism and seduction – all in mixed media.