Alireza Korangy, Ph.D. is a researcher in Iranian and Semitic philology and Linguistics. He also works on folklore. He is Faculty at the American University of Beirut and has previously taught at the University of Virginia, University of Colorado at Boulder, and Harvard University. Sara Khorshidi completed her Ph.D. in comparative literature at the Justus Liebig University Gießen.

She has edited and published book chapters and a monograph in German and English: Der Raumund Körper des Politischen (Hamburg, 2022), The Ethics of Speaking about Pain; a Dialogue between Henry James and Azar Nafisi (Penn State University Press, 2023), Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel Persepolis; The Story of a Childhood and The Story of a Return between international success and censorship (Heidelberg University, 2018), and Voices from Necropolis: A Critical Study of Autobiography and Subalternity (Münster, 2019).