Abdul-Rahim al-Shaikh is a poet, a professor of philosophy and cultural studies at Birzeit University, and senior fellow at the Institute for Palestine Studies. His work is focused on poetics, theory, and translation, with a special emphasis on the representations of Palestinian identity in prison, camp, and cemetery. His latest publications, in Arabic, include: The Drawer of the Circle (2023), Conceptualizing Modern Palestine II (2023), and The Other Voice: An Introduction to the Phenomenology of Metamorphosis (2021).