Osman Barnawi is Associate Professor at the Royal Commission Colleges and Institutes, Yanbu, Saudi Arabia. His research interests include the intersection(s) of language and political economy, social and education policy studies, the cultural politics of education, multilingual and multicultural studies, second language writing, and transnational education.

Anwar Ahmed is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics at York University in Canada. His current research interests are language teacher education, second language writing pedagogy, technology, and affect studies.