Nouran Ahmed is a researcher at the Law & Society Research Unit of the American University in Cairo. Her research primarily concerns political violence and processes of radicalisation. 

Erik Skare is a researcher at the Department of Culture Studies and Orient Languages (IKOS) at the University of Oslo and an associate researcher at the Center for International Studies (CERI) at Sciences Po, Paris. He is the author of "A History of Palestinian Islamic Jihad" (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and "Palestinian Islamic Jihad: Islamist Writings on Resistance and Religion" (I.B. Tauris, 2021).