Hadi Gharabaghi is an adjunct professor at The Barry R. Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema at Brooklyn College. He is the coeditor of Streaming Video in the Global South. He has coedited a special issue of the Journal of e-Media Studies on the USIA motion picture archives, and is a contributor to Global Horror: Hybridity and Alterity in Transnational Horror Film and Cinema of the Arab World: Contemporary Directions in Theory and Practice.

Terri Ginsberg is Director of Research and Academic Affairs at the International Association of Middle Eastern Studies. She is the author of Films of Arab Loutfi and Heiny Srour: Studies in Palestine Solidarity Cinema, Visualizing the Palestinian Struggle: Towards a Critical Analytic of Palestine Solidarity Films, and Holocaust Film: The Political Aesthetics of Ideology. She is the coauthor or coeditor of Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Cinema, Cinema of the Arab World: Contemporary Directions in Theory and Practice, A Companion to German Cinema and Perspectives on German Cinema.