Hsain Warour (12/10/1941), known as the Author tailor, was born to a peasant family in the countryside of Damascus. After completing his primary education, he moved to Damascus in 1952 at the age of twelve to learn the profession of tailoring under the Armenian tailor Wahram Shahbandrian in the Al-Khaja Market.

Dr. Salma Jamil Haddad is a Syrian academic, researcher, poet, novelist, and lexicographer. She earned a Bachelor’s degree in English Literature from the University of Damascus and both her Master’s and Ph.D. in Translation from Heriot-Watt University in the United Kingdom. 

A Kurdish-Syrian researcher, writer, and thinker, born in 1956, Ibrahim Mahmoud is an influential intellectual known for his bold and groundbreaking explorations of topics in philosophy, anthropology, literature, history, and cultural criticism.