Ibrahim Hendal is a Kuwaiti writer, born in 1985. He has been writing in Kuwaiti newspapers and Arab media since 2010, and he participated in the first Cairo Literary Festival in 2015. In 2012, he published a short story collection entitled Borges and Me, and in 2017 his novel Coloured Cities appeared. He is currently at work on another short story collection. He has founded several reading clubs and cultural forums, including the “Qadimun” forum and he is a co-founder of the “Diwan” reading club.