Plan to Save the World

Ibrahim Fawzy is a literary translator and writer from Egypt currently pursuing his MFA at Boston University. He won a 2023 English PEN Presents award for his translation of Kuwaiti author Khalid Al Nasrallah's The White Line of Night and an excerpt from A Plan to Save the World was included in Best Literary Translations 2025.

Hassan Akram was born in 1993 in Basra, Iraq. He graduated from Qadissia University in Iraq and participated in the Nadwa creative writing workshop organized by the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) in 2019. His works include A Plan to Save the World and The Book of Nightmares.