Lina Khatib heads the Program on Arab Reform and Democracy at Stanford University's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. She is the author of Image Politics in the Middle East (2013). Dina Matar is the Director of the Centre for Media and Film Studies at SOAS, London. She is the author of What it Means to be Palestinian (2010). Atef Alshaer is a post-doctoral and senior teaching fellow at SOAS, University of London and has published many articles and reviews on the literature, politics and culture of the Arab World.