Nathalie Handal

Nathalie Handal is the author of 10 award-winning books, most recently, Life in a Country Album, winner of the Palestine Book Award, and The Republics, winner of the Virginia Faulkner Award for Excellence in Writing and the Arab American Book Award. Her nonfiction has appeared in Vanity Fair, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Nation, among others. Handal is the recipient of awards from the PEN Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, Fondazione di Venezia, and the Africa Institute, among others. She is professor at New York University, and writes the column, “The City and the Writer” for Words without Borders.