Hujjat-ul-Islam Dr Mohammad Saeed Bahmanpour, raised in Iran, studied at Queen Mary College London, the London School of Economics and the Allameh Tabatabai University in Tehran.

Shaykh Arif Abdulhussain founded the Al-Mahdi Institute in 1993, and currently serves as its Director and Senior Lecturer in Usul al-Fiqh and Muslim Philosophy.

Dr Ali-Reza Bhojani is a Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the Markfield Institute of Higher Education, Research Affiliate at the University of Oxford, and Lecturer at the Al-Mahdi Institute where he is co-director of the Centre for Intra-Muslim Studies.

Shaykh Hisham Hellyer is a British scholar and analyst. He writes on the politics of the modern Arab world, religion and politics in Europe and internationally, majority-minority relations, security issues and the Muslim world–West relations.

Shaykh Kumail Rajani is a Postdoc Research Fellow in Islamic Studies at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, working on the Law, Authority and Learning in Shiite Islam (www.lawalisi.eu) project. 

Dr Elham Shakry is Bahraini but was stripped of her citizenship in 2012 with her husband Dr Masoud Jahromi as supporters of human rights. She has taught Social sciences at several universities. She is now the deputy head of Bahrain Forum for Human Rights.

Rim-Sarah Alouane is a French legal academic and commentator. As a Ph.D. candidate in comparative law at the University Toulouse-Capitole in France, her research focuses on religious freedom, civil liberties, constitutional law, and human rights.

Fatik Al-Rodaini is a Journalist, Human Rights Activist, Humanitarian worker, and Founder of Mona Relief Yemen charity.

Dr Ali Al-Ahmed is a Saudi political activist, public speaker, scholar and writer. He is the founder and director of the Institute for Gulf Affairs, an independent think tank in Washington, D.C. He is a regular guest on CBS News, CNN, PBS, Fox News, and Al-Jazeera. 

Amandla Thomas-Johnson is a London-born journalist based in Dakar, Senegal, covering West Africa.  He is the author of Becoming Kwame Ture, a biography of the civil rights activist formerly known as Stokely Carmichael.

Sabika Abbas is a poet, educator & activist in India. She is the founder of Sar-e-rahguzar: Poetry On The Streets. Her work revolves around gender and Muslim rights. She is the Senior Editor of the South Asian Avant Garde Anthology.