Rabai al-Madhoun (born 1945) is a Palestinian journalist, novelist and writer.
[1] He was born in the village of al-Majdal in British Mandatory Palestine, near Ashkelon in present-day Israel.
Madhoun grew up in the refugee camp of Khan Younis located in the Gaza Strip.
As a journalist, he worked in Beirut (Lebanon), Nicosia (Cyprus) and later on in London where he is now based.
His third novel, Destinies: Concerto of the Holocaust and the Nakba was awarded the annual IPAF in April 2016.