Tobi Dahmen is a graphic artist and illustrator, and the author of the graphic novels Fahrradmod and Columbusstraße . His work has received numerous honours, including the ICOM Award for Best Short Comic and the Red Dot Design Award. Akram Al Saud was born in Deir ez-Zor and raised in Damascus. From a young age, he stood against the Syrian regime, which led to his first arrest while studying architecture in Aleppo. When the revolution began, he joined in its early days, facing three more arrests and having to abandon his studies. He has lived in the Netherlands since 2016, where he resumed studying architecture and continues his commitment to freedom and dignity. Ugur Ümit Üngör is a professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the NIOD Institute and the University of Amsterdam. Charlotte Schallié is a professor of Germanic Studies in the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures at the University of Victoria.

Her areas of interests include memory studies, visual culture studies, genocide education, care ethics, and more. She also edited the award-winning collection of graphic novels But I Live. Amjad M. Tadros is a four-time Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist, former CBS News Middle East producer, and author of The Fixer , a memoir chronicling three decades of reporting across the Arab world.