Hind Shoufani

Hind Shoufani is an Oscar-nominated/BAFTA-winning Palestinian American filmmaker, writer, & poet who grew up all over the Arab world, & now calls Brooklyn home. She's a New York University filmmaking MFA, Fulbright scholarship awardee, & the recipient of an International Writing Program residency with the University of Iowa. Hind is the editor of two anthologies of literary essays, poetry, & photography, Nowhere Near A Damn Rainbow (xanadu*, 2012, Lebanon) & Uncommon Dubai (Uncommon, ltd., 2014). Her writing is published or forthcoming in the anthologies Heaven Looks Like Us (Haymarket Books, 2025), We Call to the Eye & the Night (Persea Books, 2023), Arab Women Voice New Realities (Turning Point Press, 2017) & the Michigan Quarterly Review, Cordite, among others. She's the contributing editor of the political journal Discontent & has published creative essays, prose & poetry in international journals, magazines & anthologies. Hind worked as a director, producer & editor of documentaries for over 25 years, globally. She's also curated & hosted poetry/spoken word communal events for over 15 years & is currently attempting a Coming-Of-Middle-Age hybrid-genre lust & politics memoir, her second feature film, & some semblance of purpose & meaning in the zeitgeist.