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

Publisher, L'Edition Med Ali, Tunisia

Bachar Chebaro

Publisher, Scientific Arab Publishers, Lebanon

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

Joumana Haddad

Writer, Poet and Journalist

Dr Khaled Hroub

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

Assia Moussei

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

Zaki Anwar Nusseibeh

Advisor, Ministry of Presidential Affairs – Vice-Chairman, Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage

Margaret Obank

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

William Sieghart

Chairman & Founder, Forward Publishing, National Poetry Day, 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).