Dr Akram Al Deek is a writer, visual artist, literary critic, and scholar in post- and anti-colonial literatures and cultural studies. He is the author of Writing Displacement (London: 2016), Eucalyptus Obliqua (Amman: 2019), The Eucalyptus Tree (Beirut & Abu Dhabi: 2020), Margins (Cairo: 2021), and Purgatory (Beirut: 2023). He has contributed essays in both Arabic and English to The Palestine Chronicle, The Jordan Times, The Middle East Monitor, Rai Alyoum, Arabic Post and The Left Berlin. Some of Al Deek’s art projects have been published with The Magazine of Arab Literature in Translation Quarterly (2024). His research interests are focused on, but not restricted to, displacement and exile, identity and belonging, (trans)nationalism and migration.