Amal Ghazal is Associate Professor of History at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. She is the author of Islamic Reform and Arab Nationalism: Expanding the Crescent from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean (1880s-1930s) (London: Routledge, 2010). Her latest publication is “Tensions of Nationalism: The Mzabi Student Missions in Tunis and the Politics of Anti-Colonialism,” IJMES 47(2015), 47-63. She is co-editing, with Jens Hanssen, The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Middle-Eastern and North African History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming). Her current research project is on religious reform and nationalism in the Mzab valley in Algeria during the colonial period. Read her full profile here: http://www.dal.ca/faculty/arts/history/faculty-staff/our-faculty/amal-ghazal.html
Larbi Sadiki is Professor of International Relations and Democratization at Qatar University. He is the author of The Search for Arab Democracy: Discourses and Counter-Discourses (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004) and Rethinking Arab Democratization (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009, Paperback 2011), and editor of Routledge Handbook of the Arab Spring and Middle East Democratization (London: Routledge, 2015). His latest publication is “Towards a ‘Democratic Knowledge’ Turn? Knowledge Production in the Age of the Arab Spring!” 20.5 (2015), 702-721. He is currently preparing a manuscript on the Tunisian revolution. Read his full profile here: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Larbi_Sadiki.
