Xenia Nikolskaya is an award-winning Russian-Swedish photographer, curator, and teacher currently based in Cairo. A former curator of the Russian
Felix Arnold is scientific director of the Madrid branch of the German Archaeological Institute, and an architect and archaeologist specialized
Mostafa Mohie is a journalist who works for Mada Masr online newspaper in Egypt. He was a documentary researcher for films on
Heba Safey Eldeen is professor of architecture and urban design at Misr International University, Cairo, and an adjunct professor at
Nezar AlSayyad is emeritus professor of architecture, planning, urban design, and urban history at the University of California, Berkeley, where
Matthieu Rey is director of contemporary studies at the Institut français du Proche-Orient (IFPO), Beirut, and a CNRS researcher specializing
Linda Herrera, a social anthropologist with regional expertise in North Africa and West Asia with a focus on Egypt, is
Kay Heikkinen is a translator and academic who holds a PhD from Harvard University. She was previously Ibn Rushd Lecturer
Mandy McClure is the translator of Arab Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide (AUC Press, 2008) and Tales of Yusuf
Hasna Reda-Mekdashi is a Lebanese publisher, former director of the prominent child literature publishing house Dar al-Fata al-Arabi, and founding
Ziad Elmarsafy is professor of comparative literature at King’s College, London. He has published widely on Arabic and French literature
Mohamed Shoair is an Egyptian critic and journalist, and managing editor of the literary magazine Akhbar al-adab. Born in 1974,
Nevenka Korica Sullivan has taught Arabic at Harvard University and the American University in Cairo and in Middlebury’s summer program,
Amandine Marshall obtained her PhD in Egyptology from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHSS), Toulouse. She is
Andrea Loprieno-Gnirs is a research associate at the University of Basel and a Principal Researcher for the Life Histories of
Yasser M. Ayad is a professor of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) at Clarion University of Pennsylvania. Born and raised in
Anne-Linda Amira Augustin is a political advisor to the European Representative Office of the Southern Transitional Council, a non-resident scholar
Tessa Grafen is a linguistic consultant currently based in London. She has a master’s degree in Arabic and Persian from