Massoud Hayoun

is an award-winning author and journalist based in Los Angeles. He is the author of two novels forthcoming from Britain’s Darf Publishers this year entitled The Ghorba Ghost Story Series. In 2019, he published When We Were Arabs: A Jewish Family's Forgotten History, his first nonfiction book and a political theory of Arabness applied to and emanating from the lives of Massoud's grandparents, who raised him. It won an Arab American Book Award for 'breaking new ground in Arab and Arab American identity' and was a U.S. National Public Radio best book of the year. He has reported and edited for outlets including Al Jazeera, AFP, and CNN in China, the Middle East, and the United States.