Hicham Awad holds an MA in Film and Visual Studies from Harvard University and has taught courses in film and media history, as well as studio art, at Harvard and the American University of Beirut (AUB). His writing explores subjects such as the British films of Jerzy Skolimowski; Lebanese sociologist Waddah Sharara’s writings on film, and cinema and/against television in the work of French film critics Jean-Claude Biette, Serge Daney, and Louis Skorecki.

Tara Menon is a Ph. D. candidate in Comparative Literature at Yale University and holds a M.A. and M.Phil. from Yale University and a B.A. from Colorado College. She was also awarded a Postdoctoral Writing Fellowship at Ashoka University and an Exchange Scholar at École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen.