Andrew Leber was born in 1990 and is a researcher based in Doha, Qatar. He graduated with a BA in International Relations from Brown University and was a Fellow with the Center for Arabic Study Abroad in Cairo Egypt from 2012 to 2013. He has previously translated short excerpts of Syrian and Palestinian literature, including a selection of Hani al-Rahib’s The Epidemic (1981). (updated 8/2014)