Basma Ghalayini
Basma Ghalayini is an Arabic translator and interpreter and has previously translated short fiction for the KFW Stifflung series, Beirut Short Stories, published on addastories.org, as well as for Comma Press projects, such as Banthology, The Book of Cairo, and The Book of Ramallah.
She is series editor on all Comma Press' Arabic titles, and in 2021 was co-editor, with Rasha Abdulhadi, of Strange Horizon's Special Palestinian Edition. She has written for the New York Times and was born and grew up in the Gaza Strip. She is the editor of the anthologies Palestine + 100 (2019) and Palestine - 1 (2025).
