Mohammed Zaqzooq is a writer, editor, and researcher born in Khan Younis in 1990. He studied Arabic language and literature at Al-Aqsa University and is a contributor to various Palestinian and Arab platforms.

Mohammed is an active member in literary and cultural organizations shaping Gaza’s cultural landscape and the former general coordinator of the “Utopia for Knowledge” assembly. Currently, he coordinates community library and youth teams at the Tamer Foundation for Community Education. His poetry collection The Soothsayers of Khanun won the Khalili Poetry Award at the First Palestinian Cultural Forum for Creative Writers in 2018.

Also read: Mohammad al-Zaqzouq: ‘Where I Write Now’

He was also co-editor of the Gaza! Gaza! Gaza! issue of ArabLit Quarterly.