Palestinian-Israeli poet and playwrite Ayman Agbaria was born in Umm Al-Fahm, Israel in 1968. Agbaria is the author of the Arabic collection of poems Scattered...Please Do Not Gather Me, published in Shfaamre, Israel in 1997. He also wrote The Bus (drama, 2003) and his last play, The White of the Eye (2004), was produced by Almedan Theatre in Haifa in 2005. His poetry has been translated into Hebrew, and has appeared in several prestigious literary periodicals.

Agbaria completed his PhD in Educational Theory and Policy and International and Comparative Education at Penn State University. Dr. Agbaria has two graduate degrees, one in Criminology, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the other in International Development and Social Change from Clark University. He has worked for the Israeli Association for Community Centers and the Shatil organization of the New Israel Fund. He also founded and chaired the Informal Education Program for Arab students at Beit Berl College. His most recent position was with the Comparative Education Review, working as a co-managing editor. Currently, Agbaria is a postdoctoral fellow at Haifa University.