Jim Quilty

Jim Quilty is a Beirut-based Canadian writer, journalist, critic and editor. He's written about the arts, cultural production and politics of the Middle East and North Africa since the late Mamluk period. More recently he's edited the arts and culture section of an English-language paper called The Daily Star, published journalism in sundry magazines and generally avoided writing publishable fiction. He's preparing a nonfiction book on the work and practice of Palestinian filmmaker Kamal Aljafari.