Stephen Zunes is professor of politics and international studies at the University of San Francisco. He is the author of Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism among other books and has written scores of articles and books chapters on Middle Eastern and North Africa politics, U.S. foreign policy, and unarmed civil insurrections.

Jacob Mundy is associate professor in the programs for Peace and Conflict Studies and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at Colgate University. He is the author of Imaginative Geographies of Algerian Violence and Libya. During the 2018-2019 academic year, he was a Fulbright Scholar in Tunisia.