Matteo Capasso is a Professor at the School of Country and Region Studies, Northwest University, Xi’an, People’s Republic of China. He is the author of Everyday Politics in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (Syracuse University Press, 2023) and co-editor of The Imperialist Question in the Middle East and North Africa (Routledge, 2025). He is also Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed journal, Middle East Critique.

Walaa Alqaisiya is Associate Professor at the School of Country and Region Studies, Northwest University, Xi’an, People’s Republic of China. She is the author of Decolonial Queering in Palestine (Routledge, 2022) and co-editor of Palestine and the Western Academe (Routeldge, 2025).

Rong Jianxin is a journalist at the Beijing Cultural Review.