Maram al-Masri. A Syrian poet, after studying English literature in Damascus, she settled in Paris. The author of several poetry books, she won the Adonis Prize awarded to the best Arab Creative Work in 1998 by the Lebanese Cultural Forum, with “Red Cherry on White Tiles” (1997) . One of the topics she most commonly explores is women’s freedom, as highlighted in her book “Wallada’s Return” (2007), in which she rediscovers this female poet from Al-Andalus. Al-Masri has also authored short stories published in both Arab and European literary magazines. She has take part in international poetry festivals in several countries. She came to Cordoba to attend the Cosmopoética Festival in the year of 2011. In 2016, she wrote “Love in Times of Insurrection and War: An anthology of today’s Syrian poetry,” in which she compiled and translated works by contemporary Syrian poets.

Inmaculada Serrano. An Arabist and Spanish Language and Literature teacher at the San Álvaro Institute in Cordoba, she has been an Arabist since 2007, when she began her work to complete research on the female writers of of Al-Andalus in order to increase awareness about them through teaching. She later expanded her studies to include all of the female historical figures who stood out in Cordoba’s history in any social or cultural arena. She has given countless gender-based tours in Cordoba while cooperating with various entities, the most notable of which have been the Cordoba Delegation of Education and Science, the Cordoba Center for Teachers and the Casa Árabe headquarters in Cordoba.