Feurat Alani is a French journalist and documentary filmmaker who has spent more than seventeen years reporting across the Middle East. He is the author of two graphic novels, The Flavors of Iraq, which won the Prix Albert-Londres, France's highest journalism prize, in 2019; and Falloujah, ma campagne perdue (Fallujah, my lost campaign). His work has appeared in a variety of international outlets including the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Le Monde Diplomatique, France 24, Mediapart, Al Jazeera, Arte, Canal Plus, and Radio Canada. His debut novel, I Remember Fallujah, received the Arab Literature Prize and the Senghor First Novel Prize, and was a finalist for the Goncourt First Novel Prize. He lives in France and Dubai.

Adriana Hunter studied French and Drama at the University of London. She has translated more than ninety books, including Marc Petitjean's The Heart: Frida Kahlo in Paris and Hervé Le Tellier's The Anomaly and Eléctrico W, winner of the French-American Foundation's 2013 Translation Prize in Fiction. She lives in Kent, England.