Dani Arbid is a writer, filmmaker and entrepreneur who graduated with a degree in political science from the American University of Beirut. He has worked as a writer, photographer and videographer in Beirut, Istanbul and Berlin. In 2018, he founded Barakunan GmbH, a publishing and media start-up based in Berlin, where he published his first two books under the name Zahreddine. In September 2019 he was awarded the inaugural Buro BDP Writing Prize, with the resulting manuscript to be published by Broken Dimanche Press in spring 2020. On Twitter: @zahreddinesays