An award-winning poet, playwright, and writer, Nathalie Handal is a truly global figure. She studied poetry at Bennington College in the US, drama and English at the University of London and fiction in Humber College in Canada.

Handal has lived across the world including  Europe, the US, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Arab world and lectures to students from Africa to New York’s Columbia University. She has also been involved either as a writer, director or producer in over twenty theatrical and/or film productions worldwide.

Of Palestinian origin, her work has been published globally and has been translated into more than fifteen languages.