Ibtihal Rida Mahmood is an author, editor, translator, and poet. She’s the translator and co-editor of Snow in Amman: An Anthology of Short Stories from Jordan (2015) and The Impossible Revolution: Making Sense of the Syrian Tragedy (2017) by Yassin al-Haj Saleh. Her work has appeared in online magazines including ArabLit, ArabLit Quarterly, The Markaz Review, New Internationalist, Qantara, The Seattle Globalist, and Women Writers, Women’s Books. Her original poetry and translations have been featured in several anthologies, among them The Art of Being Human (ed. Daniela Voicu, 2013), Premio Mondiale di Poesia Nosside (ed. Pasquale Amato, 2014), and Versus Versus: 100 Poems by Deaf, Disabled & Neurodivergent Poets (ed. Rachael Boast, 2025). She’s also the managing editor of ArabLit, a non-profit, crowd-funded collective and digital platform dedicated to Arabic literature in translation.