Basma Ghalayini is an editor and translator, born in Khan Younis and raised in Gaza City. She is the editor of Palestine +100: Stories from a Century After the Nakba, Voices of Resistance: Diaries of Genocide, and Palestine – 1: Stories from the Eve of the Nakba. Her translations have been published by Commonwealth Writers, Deep Vellum Press and Comma Press in books including Banthology, The Book of Ramallah and The Book of Cairo. As a journalist, she has written for The New York Times and Wasafari.
Basma Ghalayini
In conversation
Basma Ghalayini: 'Because we're continually being bombed and occupied, there's curfews, there's strikes, we can't just stop every time something like this happens or we'll never do anything.'
In conversation with John Siddique
9th September 2026
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Basma Ghalayini
Basma Ghalayini is an editor and translator, born in Khan Younis and raised in Gaza City.