(Tunisia, 1960) is a writer, essayist, traveller and popular panel moderator. He has published fiction and non-fiction; was the director of the debating platform and venue De Balie; and was founder of the literary bookshop Perdu and the cultural centre De Tolhuistuin (all in Amsterdam). He performed with Enkidu Khaled in their jointly created documentary play Bagdad. Due to his curiosity about how artists recreate their cities after a crisis, he travelled to Sarajevo, Beirut, Tirana, Algiers, New York, Kiev, Jakarta and Qamishlo. At the invitation of PAX, he wrote Srebrenica & PAX 1995-2020, an overview of 25 years of support to the Association of Women of Srebrenica by the IKV and PAX in response to the genocide in Bosnia. In 2021 he published Gastvrijheid (Hospitality), in which he explores the art of hospitality through a mix of travel stories, observations, memories and imagery.

(1970, Pekalongan, Indonesia) is essayist and literary translator. He works as an editor for amongst others Kalam, a contemporary art magazine, a publication of Komunitas Utan Kayu in Jakarta. Alongside this he is head of the poetry editorial of Kompas, one of the large Indonesian newspapers. Works by Hasif Amini are: The Poets’ Chant (translated from the Indonesian, 1995) and the following anthologies, put together by him: Para Pembohong (The liers, short stories, 1996) and Utan Kayu: Tokoh dalam Montase (Utan Kayu: Personae in Montage, 2001).
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