Trustees

An independent Board of Trustees, drawn from across the Arab world and beyond, is responsible for the overall management of the Prize. The Trustees are listed in alphabetical order.

Professor Marie-Thérèse Abdel-Messih

Professor of English & Comparative Literature, University of Cairo, Egypt; currently on secondment at the University of Kuwait

Nouri Abid

Nouri Abid is the founder of Med Ali Editions. He was born in Sfax, Tunisia, and completed his graduate studies at the University of Tunis, where he received a Masters in Arabic and Arab literature.

Nujoom Alghanem

Nujoom Alghanem is a poet, writer & a multi- award- winning filmmaker from the UAE. Was born in Dubai, UAE, 1962. She holds an MA in media Production, from Griffith University in Australia and a bachelor degree in Video Production from Ohio University in the USA.

Dr. Peter Clark OBE

Independent Consultant and Writer, Middle East Cultural Advisory Services, UK

Professor Rasheed El-Enany

Professor of Modern Arabic Literature, University of Exeter, and Series Editor of Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature, UK

Dr Khaled Hroub

Arab academic and director of Cambridge Arab Media Project (CAMP)

Maher Kayyali

Maher Kayyali holds a Bachelors in Business Administration from the University of Jordan (1970) and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin - Whitewater, USA (1973).

Michel S. Moushabeck

Michel S. Moushabeck is a writer, editor, publisher, and musician. He is the founder of Interlink Publishing, a 25-year-old, Massachusetts-based independent publishing house specializing in fiction-in-translation, history, and cultural guides.

Assia Moussei

President and Publishing Manager of El Ikhtilef publishing house, translator and journalist, Algeria

Zaki Anwar Nusseibeh

Advisor, Ministry of Presidential Affairs

Margaret Obank

Publisher and Editor, Banipal magazine of Modern Arab Literature, UK

Ahdaf Soueif

Ahdaf Soueif is the author of the bestselling The Map of Love (shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1999 and translated into more than 20 languages).