Rana Issa
is a writer, curator, translator, and pedagogue whose work spans creative, theoretical, and historical genres. Her published works include The Modern Arabic Bible (2023), Tung tids tale (2025), which was nominated for the Bokhandlerenpris and won the Thomas Hylland Eriksen Memorial Prize, and Inn Ushtum Ushtum (2026). A contributor to international arts and culture journals in English, Norwegian, and Arabic, she co-founded and directs Masahat for Arab Arts and Culture in Exile in Norway. A graduate of the American University of Beirut and University of Oslo, where she taught until 2022, Rana writes about Palestine, queer aesthetics, and ecological matters.