Houssem Ben Lazreg is a blogger, researcher, and a PhD candidate in Modern Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta. His doctoral dissertation examines the role of translation within the social movements in the Middle East and North Africa. He is also a freelance translator/interpreter and an instructor of Arabic and French.

Amira Hassnaoui is a researcher, and a PhD candidate in Cultural and Performance Studies at the University of California Los Angeles. Her research examines the commodification of trance-induced ethnic music practices in Tunisia in the post-Revolution context. She also teaches courses on Popular Culture, Arts and Activism, and Colonialism and Resistance.