Aisha Ibrahim is a Libyan novelist born in Beni Walid, Libya, in 1969. She worked as a teacher and then as editor in chief of the websites of the Libyan Ministry of Culture and the High Commission for the elections. Read More She has published a collection of short stories, The World Ends in Tripoli (2019), and three novels, Qasil (2016); The War of the Gazelle (2019), longlisted for the 2020 International Prize for Arabic Fiction; and Box of Sand, longlisted for the 2023 International Prize for Arabic Fiction. In 2020, she received the Libyan Ministry of Culture’s Medal for Creativity.