Naim Al Khatib was born in 1968 in a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. He received his bachelor’s degree in computer science with a minor in theater from the American University in Cairo in 1993 and his master’s in computer science from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2003. He published his first narrative collection Free Reign in 2010, and his second Stolen Alive in 2013 (both in Arabic). He also has attempted screenwriting and playwriting in addition to his passion for acting and directing.