Deina Abdelkader is Associate Professor at University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA, and the author of Social Justice in Islam (2000) and Islamic Activists: The Anti-Enlightenment Democrats (2011).
Raffaele Mauriello is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Faculty of World Studies, University of Tehran, Iran. In 2013, he was awarded the prize for Book of the Year in Iran.
Nassef Manabilang Adiong is the editor of International Relations and Islam: Diverse Perspectives (2013), and one of the founders of Co-IRIS (International Relations and Islamic Studies Research Cohort).