Aurele Tobelem is an undergraduate History student at King’s College London (KCL) and Middle East Editor at the King’s Geopolitics Forum. A commentator and pro-Israel activist, Aurele is of Moroccan-Sephardi heritage and is also a member of Harif UK. His work has appeared in diverse publications, including The Jerusalem Post, Times of Israel, Quillette, and Global Arab Network.

Carol Isaacs is an award-winning musician (Sinead O'Connor, Indigo Girls), filmmaker and New Yorker cartoonist aka The Surreal McCoy. Her debut graphic memoir “The Wolf of Baghdad” is based on her Iraqi-Jewish family’s bittersweet memories of their lost homeland. She also adapted it as a motion comic (animation) with a soundtrack of Judeo Arabic and Iraqi music on which she plays Arabic accordion.

Eliyahu Harkham is an artist based in Los Angeles. While heavily influenced by his time studying in Rome and previously, under his father, Harkham often incorporates Jewish themes in his work. He currently works and teaches out of his studio, Shamash Fine Arts.

Einav Grushka is a student at Tel Aviv University. She was previously Deputy Editor in Chief of The Cambridge Language Collective and an editor for Panoramic magazine at the University of Cambridge. As the grandchild of Moroccan grandparents, Einav’s contribution to Yad Mizrahi explores the history of her own ancestors.

Fortune Chalme is an exhibiting Artist and designer living in Oakhurst, New Jersey with her husband and 4 children. She holds a BFA from The School of Visual Arts in NYC and has studied at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem.

Maia Zelkha is an Iraqi-Jewish writer living in a moshav in central Israel, and is the Founding Editor of Yad Mizrah Magazine. Her work has been published in the Jewish Book Council, Parabola, Furrow Magazine, Times of Israel Blogs, and most recently, Judith Magazine and the anthology “Young Zionist Voices: a New Generation Speaks Out.”

Or Mor-Yosef is an Israeli aid worker based in Tel Aviv . He has published poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and poetry translations in various publications such as The Jerusalem Post, Ilanot Review, Arc, Caesura, and One Eyed Press.

Peshraw Mohammed, born in southern Kurdistan (Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq), based in Berlin, is a freelance author and translator specializing in German philosophy, antisemitism, and the cultural history of National Socialism. Since October 7, he has been writing regularly for German platforms and delivering speeches on antisemitism across various political spectra, including the right, the left, and Islamism. He is currently working on his forthcoming book, Genealogy of Demonization: The Interconnectedness of Antisemitism and Antikurdism (in English).

Sadie Benjamin is a writer and artist of mixed Ashkenazi-Indian Jewish background. Her work has been featured in The Dawn Review, YouthBeHeard, JGirls+, and others. 

Sarah is an Australian born, Iraqi Jewish writer, poet, and educator. She is the author of the ch ildren’s picture books Shoham’s Bangle, This is Not a Cholent, and a micro-chapbook, This is Why We Don’t Look Back. She is an editorial advisor for Distinctions: a Sephardi and Mizrahi Journal and a member of Yad Mizrah Magazine’s advisory board.

Yitzchak Kerem is historical researcher of Sephardic Jewish history; he is also the editor of Sefarad v’HaMizrah [Hebrew University'], and is a Spiegel Holocaust Fellow at Bar Ilan University.