Sue-Ann Harding
Sue-Ann Harding is a Professor of Translation and Intercultural Studies at Queen’s University Belfast, UK. Her research investigates translation in diverse contexts, particularly in sites of narrative contestation. Previously Assistant Professor of Translation Studies at the Translation and Interpreting Institute, Hamad bin Khalifa University in Qatar (2012-2017), she has published widely in leading Translation Studies Journals, is President of IATIS (International Association of Translation and Intercultural Studies), co-editor of The Translator and author of An Archival Journey Through the Qatar Peninsula: Elusive and Precarious, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).
Mahjoob Zweiri
Dr. Zweiri is Professor of Contemporary History and Politics of the Middle East, and former Director of the Gulf Studies Center at Qatar University. He is the Senior Editor of Contemporary Gulf Studies Series”. Which includes Contemporary Qatar: Examining State and Society, published in 2021. The Making of Contemporary Kuwait: Identity, Politics, and its Survival Strategy, 2024. Contemporary Oman: The Sultan, the People and the Legacy of Peace, 2024.
Michael O’Sullivan
Dr. O’Sullivan is Assistant Professor of South Asian History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Senior Research Fellow for CAPASIA at the European University Institute, Florence. He is the author of No Birds of Passage: A History of Gujarati Muslim Business Communities, 1800–1975, published in 2023.
Amélie Couvrat Desvergnes
Ms Couvrat Desvergnes is a paper and book conservator and currently works at the KB, National Library of the Netherlands. She has also worked freelance in France, at the Museum of Islamic Art in Qatar and at the Rijkmuseum in Amsterdam. She specializes in the materiality and conservation of Islamic and South Asian manuscripts and has published numerous works on the subject. She is co-author of History of Paper in Iran, 1501-1925, published in 2022 with Willem Floor.
Daniel Martin Varisco
Daniel Martin Varisco is an anthropologist and historian who has conducted research on almanac lore in Qatar in 1989 and later as a professor at Qatar University from 2014-2017. His book Seasonal Knowledge and the Almanac Tradition in the Arab Gulf was published in 2022. He has published on Islamic folk astronomy, the history of Arab agriculture, Arab seafaring, Rasulid Yemen and Arabic tribal genealogy. He is currently retired and living in New York.
Nawal Nasrallah
Nawal Nasrallah is a U.S.-based Iraqi food writer specialized in the history and culture of Arab food with special interest in translating into English medieval Arabic cookbooks, Of her published translations: Annals of the Caliphs’ Kitchens by Ibn Sayyār al-Warrāq, from 10th-century Baghdad (2007); Treasure Trove of Benefits and Variety at the Table from 14th-centruy Egypt (2018); Best of Delectable Foods and Dishes by Ibn Razīn al-Tujībī from 13th-century al-Andalus (2021); and forthcoming Smorgasbords of Andalusi and Maghribi Dishes and Their Salutary Benefits, also from 13th-century al-Andalus; all published by Brill.
Robert Carter
Giuliano Garavini
Richard Schofield