Medeia Sharif received her master's degree in psychology from Florida Atlantic University. She is a public school teacher and the author of Remembering Mom's Kubbat Halab. She lives in Miami, Florida. Visit medeiasharif.com and @medeiasharif on Twitter. Basma Hosam graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cairo. She has illustrated over 30 books in the Middle East and has worked with Oxford University for an Arabic language project. She is also the author-illustrator of the award-winning book Something Searching for Himself. She lives in Cairo, Egypt.
