Samer Al Kadri is the publisher of Brightfingers, a publisher for Childrens Books in Arabic, as well as a graphic designer. Being from Syria, he and his family emigrated to Istanbul, where Samer founded the Bookshop-Café “Pages” for books in Arabic. In 2017 the family moved to Amsterdam where another “Pages” bookshop and Café was founded. Samer also works for the Dutch Foundation for Literature.