Raji Bathish is a Palestinian writer, researcher, and cultural critic, born in Nazareth in 1970, where he currently resides. He has published ten books, which include poetry, short stories, and hybrid “open” texts. Bathish has also written numerous articles on sexuality, cinema, and literature in several Arabic print and online publications. His short stories and poems have been included in anthologies and magazines, both in Arabic and in translations in Hebrew, English, and French. He teaches Palestinian cinema and creative fiction in the Open University of Israel.