Salah Badis is a journalist, writer, and translator who has been working in the Algerian and Arab press for a decade. He co-founded literary magazines and media websites in Algeria (Nafha 2015, Twala 2020) and North Africa (Khatt 30, 2021), and won the Mustafa Al-Husseini Award for Best Young Arab Journalist in 2020. As an author, he published a poetry collection (Boredom of Ships, 2016) and a short story collection that was translated into French and English (These Things Happen, 2019). He translated two French novels into Arabic, both published by Barzakh Editions in Algeria. He has led several writing and translation workshops and is deeply interested in researching Algerian musical genres, specifically Chaabi and Raï.