David DiMeo is an associate professor and director of the Arabic program at Western Kentucky University and has taught Arabic for over twenty years. He holds a PhD from Harvard University and an MA from Princeton University. He is the author of Committed to Disillusion: Activist Writers in Egypt from the 1950s to the 1980s (AUC Press, 2016) and Taha Hussein's The Days: A Guided Study for Arabic Learners (AUC Press, 2022), and hosts the podcast The Golden Age of Islam.
Inas Hassan has a PhD and an MA in Arabic linguistics from Alexandria University in Egypt and is currently visiting assistant professor of Arabic at Loyola University Maryland.