Nour Mohamad Jamil Hodeib's historical scholarship focuses on leftist sonic counter-cultures in the Middle East. Hodeib explores elements of pop culture and musical dissent during the period commonly referred to as the “global sixties.” He is currently a Doctoral Candidate in the history program, Graduate Center (CUNY), writing a dissertation on leftist sonic counter-cultures of the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990). Hodeib earned an M-Phil (History), MA (History), and MA (Middle East Studies) from the Graduate Center, CUNY (2017) and a BA degree in Political Science/International Affairs from the Lebanese American University (2012).  Aside from academic work, Hodeib is a writer, artist and performer, active in arts communities in and between Brooklyn and Beirut since 2010."

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.

Asha Schechter is an artist, writer, and publisher who has a press called Apogee Graphics based out of The Bonadventure hotel in Los Angeles. He received his MFA from UCLA.