Muhammad Al-Zaqzouq is a writer, editor, and researcher from Khan Younis, Gaza. His poetry collection Betrayed by the Soothsayers received the 2018 Al Khalili Prize for Poetry, and he is the co-editor, with Mahmoud Alshaer, of Letters from Gaza (Penguin Random House, 2025). He has worked tirelessly on bringing Gaza’s writings to the world. His own words have appeared in places like The New York Review of Books Online, The Berlin Review, and have also been translated into five European languages.