Fatima Qandeel: Egyptian academic and poet, born in Suez in 1958. She got a master’s degree for her thesis titled “Intertextuality in the Poetry of the Seventies,” and her doctorate for her thesis “On the Poetics of Prose Writing of Gibran Khalil Gibran.” She was one of the editors for the Seasons for Literary Criticism Magazine, and published the following of poetry collections: So that we can live – in Egyptian dialect, a special edition in 1984, Curfew – a special edition in 1987, The Second Night after a Thousand – a poetic play that was adapted into a theater production in the Chamber Theater in 1990, The Silence of a Wet Cotton – Dar Sharqiyyat 1995, Questions Hanging like Alters – Dar Al-Nahda Al-Arabiya 2008, I am your Tombstone – Dar Afaq 2009, My House has Two Doors – Dar Al-Ain 2017, as well as a number of studies, translations and literary articles.