Rabai Khalil Al Madhoun is a Palestinian writer. He was born in al-Majdal, Askalan, southern Palestine (now Ashkalon/ Israel), in 1945. During the 1948 Nakba exodus, his family emigrated to Khan Younis in the Gaza strip.
He has worked at the Palestinian Centre for Research Studies and as a journalist and editor for many newspapers and magazines. He currently works as an editor for Al-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper in London.
In 2010, Al Madhoun’s novel The Lady from Tel Aviv was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF). His Destinies: Concerto of the Holocaust and the Nakba won the 2016 IPAF.