Hashem Ahmadzadeh, Institute for Research and Development – Kurdistan, Erbil, Iraq Madawi Al-Rasheed, London School of Economics, UK Abdelkader Aoudjit, Northern Virginia Community College, USA Torkel Brekke, University of Oslo, Norway Zaur Gasimov, Orient Institute Istanbul (DGIA/Max Weber Foundation), Turkey Søren Hebbelstrup, Royal Danish Defence College, Copenhagen, Denmark Gregory Jusdanis, Department of Classics, Ohio State University, USA Florian Kohstall, Freie Universität Berlin at the German Science Center in Cairo, Egypt Daniella Kuzmanovic, Institute for Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Elisabeth Özdalga, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey Tetz Rooke, University of Gothenburg in Sweden Azade Seyhan, Bryn Mawr College, USA Claus Valling Pedersen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Sami Zubaida, University of London, UK