Racha Mourtada is the founder of Luqoom, a boutique publishing house for children's books. She has had a varied career–working as a biomedical engineer, a UN researcher and a public policy analyst–throughout which the one constant has been her love of writing. An alumnus of Faber Academy’s ‘Novel Writing Course’ and the inaugural ‘Columbia Publishing Course’ at Oxford University, she recently decided to leave her corporate life in Dubai and move back to her native Beirut to set up her publishing house and focus on her writing.