Bessma Momani is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Waterloo and the Balsillie School of International Affairs. She is author of Arab Dawn: Arab Youth and the Demographic Dividend They Will Bring.
Eid Mohamed is Assistant Professor of Transnational Literary and Cultural Studies at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies and the University of Guelph. He is author of Arab Occidentalism: Images of America in the Middle East.