Ninar Esber is an artist and a writer. She lives and works in Paris.

Adonis (born Ali Ahmad Said in Al Qassabin) is a Syrian-Lebanese poet, literary critic, translator and editor. Professor of Arabic Literature, Lebanese University (1970), he has also taught at the Collège de France, Georgetown University and the University of Geneva. Some of his works include Abjadiyyah thaniyyah (1994), If Only the Sea Could Sleep (1994), The Pages of Day and Night (1994) and A Time between Ashes and Roses (2005).