Talha Jalal is interested in people, places and ideas that exist in a state of inbetweenness: refugees and migrants, metropolitan cities, and the varied discontents of white hegemonies. Born in Pakistan, he has worked in the Middle East, Europe and the United States as a writer, humanitarian and public policy specialist. He is the author of “Memoirs of the Badshahi Mosque” (OUP, 2013). In 2017, while serving with Doctors Without Borders, he designed a rehabilitation program for victims of torture from Syria. He was also the Middle East regional manager with Danish Refugee Council. During the pandemic, he led the design and implementation of the world’s largest humanitarian scheme for COVID-19 vaccines as a public policy specialist at the Gavi Alliance. He studied international relations at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University and documentary film at The New School.