Ibrahim Nasrallah was born to Palestinian parents in Jordan in 1954, and grew up in a refugee camp there. He has written fourteen collections of poetry and fourteen novels as well as works of literary criticism. He is also a painter and photographer.

Gaza Weddings is the third part of his Palestinian tragicomedy, following Time of White Horses (Hoopoe, 2016) and The Lanterns of the King of Galilee (AUC Press, 2015).

Nancy Roberts is the translator of a number of Arabic novels including Salwa Bakr’s The Man from Bashmour (AUC Press, 2007), for which she received a commendation in the Saif Ghobash–Banipal Prize for Translation. She is also the translator of Ibrahim Nasrallah’s acclaimed Time of White Horses and The Lanterns of the King of Galilee.