<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c7db740a-7fff-6874-66ab-97b59a898657" style="caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Rana Issa is a writer, translator and curator. She is the author of </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Modern Arabic Bible</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Tung Tid Mor</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> (</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Heavy Times Mother</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">), and the forthcoming memoir </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Ummiyat</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. She is cofounder and artistic director of Masahat for Arab Arts and Culture in Exile, an institution that programs and produces cultural expression by Arab and global south artists and writers in Norway. </span></span></p>