Hany Rashwan is assistant professor of Arabic Language and Literature at United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham. He was aresearch fellow of Arabic literary theory at the University of Birmingham,where he led the Arabic poetics strand of the Global Literary Theory project funded by the European Research Council. He previously held an Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at the American University of Beirut. The recipient of an International Society for the History of Rhetoric (ISHR) Research Fellowship, Rashwan earned his PhD in Cultural, Literary, and Postcolonial Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.

Stephen Quirke is professor of Egyptology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. His publications include Going out in Daylight - prt m hrw: The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead - translation, sources, meanings (2013).

Ayman A. El-Desouky is associate professor of Modern Arabic and Comparative Literature at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies in Qatar. He is the author of The Intellectual and the People in Egyptian Literature and Culture: Amara and the 2011 Revolution (2014).