The Palace of Angels

Mohammed Massoud Morsi was born in Copenhagen to Egyptian parents. A writer, journalist and photographer, he has lived in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia before moving to Australia in 2011. His fiction and non-fiction works have appeared in Australian and international publications, and his most recent three stories have been published in the collection The Palace of Angels. Morsi now lives in Perth with his son.

Antony Loewenstein is an author and journalist who has written for publications including The New York Times, The Guardian, the BBC, The Washington Post and The Nation. He is the author of Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe and wrote and co-produced the associated documentary. Other books include My Israel Question, Profits of Doom and his most recent book on the international drug trade, Pills, Powder, and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs.