David DiMeo is a retired Associate Professor and Director of the Arabic program at Western Kentucky University, USA. He has taught Arabic for over 20 years. He received a Ph.D. from Harvard University and M.A. from Princeton University. He is the author of Committed to Disillusion: Activist Writers in Egypt from the 1950s to the 1980s, Taha Hussein's The Days: A Guided Study for Arabic Learners, co-author (with Inas Hassan) of The Travels of Ibn Battuta: A Guided Arabic Reader and From Ibn Sina to Sindbad: A Guided Reader to Classics of Arabic Literature, and hosts the podcast The Golden Age of Islam.

Inas Hassan holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in linguistics and Arabic grammar from Alexandria University in Egypt. She is a Teaching Professor and Coordinator of Arabic program at Loyola University, Maryland, USA. She is the co-author of the books entitled The Travels of Ibn Battuta: A Guided Arabic Reader, From Ibn Sina to Sindbad: A Guided Reader to Classics of Arabic Literature, and the author of the chapter "The Arabyola Portal: Integrating Trusted Arabic e-Resources into Curriculum," in The Arabic Classroom: Context, Text and Learners (Mbaye Lo, ed.).