Omar Sayfo is a Syrian-Hungarian journalist and expert on Middle Eastern media at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Utrecht University. He is the author of several books, including Arab Animation: Images of Identity.
Paul Olchváry has translated more than ten books from Hungarian, including György Dragomán's novel The White King. He has received translation awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, PEN America, and Hungary's Milán Füst Foundation. His shorter translations have appeared in The Paris Review, The Hungarian Quarterly, and turnrow.