Leyla Dakhli has a PhD in history, and is specialist in intelectual and social history of the contemporary Arab world. She was an associate professore at the Chaire d'histoire du monde arabe contemporain, from 2004 to 2008. She has lectured in d'Aix-Marseille University, Paris I-Sorbonne, and coordinated the seminar on journalists history at the Ecole des Hautes études en sciences sociales. She is a researcher from the CNRS, in the Centre Marc Bloch (Berlin). She is member from the editorial committee from the history magazine Le Mouvement social, from the International Review of Social History (Amsterdam) and the online magazine La Vie des idées. She is also a member from the scientific board from the BULAC (Bibliothèque universitaire des langues et civilisations, París), and founder of the Société européenne des auteurs (www.seua.org) –which promotes translation of literature in Europe.

She is a profesor at Irvine Valley College and hold a PhD in Hispanic Letters and Linguistic from UCLA (2011). Her research line is aljamiado-moorish manuscripts from 16th and 17th centuries.

Dr. Maia Sieverding is is a social demographer with experience conducting mixed-methods research on a range of population, health and development topics in North and Sub-Saharan Africa. Maia is an Evaluation Officer with the Global Health Group at UCSF, where she focuses on the design and implementation of qualitative research to evaluate the delivery of health care through informal providers. Her current projects focus on informal providers in Nigeria and clinical social franchises in Ghana and Kenya. She has also worked extensively in Egypt on topics including female genital cutting, social protection, and the transition to adulthood. Maia holds a Ph.D. in sociology and demography from the University of California, Berkeley.

She has a PhD by the Complutense University, Madrid. She does research work at Sevilla University and studies several subjects from arab world literature. Some of her most recent texts are: "El humor en la literatura árabe: La Maqama de Badi al-Zaman al-Hamadani" in Revista de Estudios Literarios (2013); "Abd al- Qadir al-Yazairi, líder de la resistencia argelina, poeta y místico" in the review Al-Andalus Magreb: Estudios árabes e islámicos.