TARIQ ALI Well-known Historian, Novelist, Film-maker, Campaigner and Political Commentator HANIF KUREISHI Oscar-nominated Screenplay Writer, Film-maker, Playwright and Novelist; Whitbread-winner (for The Buddha of Suburbia) LEILA ABOULELA Orange-prize Nominated for Two Books (The Translator; Minaret) MOHSIN HAMID Booker-nominated Author (for The Reluctant Fundamentalist, 2007) AHDAF SOUEIF Booker-nominated Author (for The Map of Love, 1996) KAMILA SHAMSIE Orange-shortlisted Author of Burnt Shadows, 2009 ZAHID HUSSAIN Author of The Curry Mile ABDULRAZAK GURNAH Booker- and Whitbread-nominated Author (for Paradise, 1994) NADEEM ASLAM Prize-winning Young Novelist (Season of the Rainbirds won the Betty Trask award; Maps for Lost Lovers won the Kiriyama Prize) ROBIN YASSIN-KASSAB Novelist (The Road from Damascus, 2008) TAHMIMA ANAM Bangladeshi Writer AAMER HUSSEIN Author of Short Stories and Novels FADIA FAQIR Jordanian Writer