Wendy Pearlman is the Jane Long Professor of Arts and Sciences and professor of political science at Northwestern University, and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Perspectives on Politics. A scholar of Middle East politics, social movements, conflict processes, and forced migration, she is the author of We Crossed A Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria and of The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora.

Nicoline Winther is a PhD student at Aarhus University. She has an MA in Middle Eastern Language and Society from Copenhagen and a BA in Arab and Islamic Studies from Aarhus. Her PhD project explores how young Palestinians in the Jordanian diaspora subjectivize themselves ethically. With an ethnographic methodology and a comparative lens, it asks how Palestinians of different socioeconomic backgrounds make sense of themselves and the Palestinian grand narrative.