Mohammad Abderrazzaq is a Ph.D. candidate in Islamic Studies at Boston University. He has served as a lecturer in Arabic at Boston University and Northeastern University (also in Boston), and he has taught courses on Introduction to Islam, Modern Standard Arabic, and Spoken Levantine Arabic. He has also contributed to the forthcoming Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic Word with articles on Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, Imam Abu Hanifa, Imam Muslim, and Imam Abu Dawud.

Elsa ElMahdy is pursuing an M.A. in Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language at the American University in Cairo (AUC), where she is also an Arabic instructor. She previously completed an M.A. in Arabic Studies at AUC, with a concentration in Arabic language and literature. She has also studied Arabic at Zaytuna Institute and UC Berkeley. Her research interests include topics in classical Arabic literature and linguistics.

Aymen Elsheikh is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Literacy, Culture, and Language Education at Indiana University, Bloomington. He has taught courses on Arabic language and culture as well as on English as a second language; he has also trained teachers to teach foreign languages. His research interests include foreign language education, the sociopolitical and cultural contexts of second language learning and teaching, and critical ethnography.

Dawood Yasin is a teacher and a religious leader. He pursued his formal studies of Islam and Arabic in Damascus, Syria, for five years. Dawood later helped found SHUKR, an online Islamic clothing store, and served as the imam of Masjid al-Islam in New Haven, Connecticut. He has also served as a teaching assistant of Arabic at Yale University (2002–2004), and was an Arabic instructor at the 2008 Zaytuna Summer Arabic Intensive.

Souhad Zendah is currently a lecturer in Arabic at Tufts University, where she teaches intermediate and advanced Arabic, and a teaching fellow in Arabic at Harvard University. Souhad previously taught Arabic at the Middlebury College Summer Language Program in Vermont and at the Fawakih Summer Arabic Program in Indiana. She has also translated into English several Arabic poems, and has studied journalism and broadcasting at the University of Petra in Jordan and Birzeit University in Palestine.