Raji Bathish is a writer, screenwriter and cultural activist born in the town of Nazareth in 1970. He  writes in Arabic and his work has been published all around the Arab world and in Israel-Palestine. He has published six books. A Room in Tel Aviv is the most famous of these, published by the Arab Institute for Studies and Research (Beirut, 2007). The Apartment in Passy Street was published in 2020 by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies.