Role: Author

Best-selling author and journalist Robert Fisk, based in Beirut as Middle East Correspondent of The Independent, has lived in the Middle East for almost three decades and holds more British and international journalism awards than any other foreign correspondent. His last book, Pity the Nation, a history of the Lebanon war, was published to great critical acclaim.

Robert G. Koolakian is historian and consultant for Hanover Square Preservation Committee serving the preservation and restoration of Syracuse, New York’s first National Landmark Preservation District.

Born in Montreal, Rima Elkouri is a journalist and columnist for La Presse. Winner of the Jules-Fournier Prize of the Superior Council of the French Language, she published Pas envie d'être arabe (Somme toute, 2014). MANAM is her first novel. She lives in Montreal.