About the Author

Alawiya Sobh is a Lebanese writer, journalist, and editor-in-chief of the women’s magazine Al-Hasnaa. She lives in Beirut. Her first novel, Maryam, Keeper of Stories, is also published by Seagull Books. This Thing Called Love was longlisted for the 2010 International Prize for Arabic Fiction. Max Weiss is associate professor of history and Near Eastern studies, and associated faculty in comparative literature at Princeton University.