Sayed Kashua was born in 1975 in Galilee and studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He writes a weekly column for Ha'aretz, Israel's most prestigious
newspaper, and lives with his wife and two children in Beit-Safafa, an Arab village within Jerusalem. His first novel, Dancing Arabs, was a San Francisco Book of the Year and was translated into eight languages. Let it be Morning (Atlantic, 2007) has been longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Award
