Jacob Norris is Associate Professor of Middle East History at the University of Sussex. His research focuses on Palestine and its connections to wider histories of colonialism, resistance, and migration, with particular attention to Latin America. He is the author of The Lives and Deaths of Jubrail Dabdoub (or How the Bethlehemites Discovered America) and Land of Progress, a study of the British Mandate in Palestine. He is co-editor of We Are Still Here, an anthology of poetry from Gaza, and the co-director of the Planet Bethlehem digital archive.

Layla Zaglul Ruiz is a social anthropologist who researches marginalised communities in Latin America and their resilience in the face of political and economic pressures. Her book Fair Trade Enclaves examines the socio-economic impacts of Fair Trade in the Costa Rican banana industry. She has held research positions at the University of Sussex, University of Kent, and the London School of Economics. More recently, her work has focused on the Palestinian diaspora and revolutionary movements across Latin America.