Dr. Habiba Boumlik is a Professor at LaGuardia Community College. She holds a Ph.D. in Social and Cultural Anthropology and M.A. in Arabic and Islamic Studies. She teaches Arabic and French language and literature, and linguistics. Her academic background and teaching experience include Arabic, French language and francophone cultures and literatures, Cultural Anthropology, Women Cross-Culturally, Middle Eastern History, and Arab Cinema. Her most recent publications include: “Female Activists in Tunisian Socio-Political Movements. The Case of Amira Yahyaoui” in E. Maestri and A. Profanter (eds.), Arab Women and the Media in Changing Landscapes. Springer (2017). Doris H. Gray and Habiba Boumlik. “Morocco’s Islamic Feminism. Contours of a New Theology?” in Gray and Sonneveld, eds., Gender, Laws, Social Change, Cambridge University Press (2018).

Dr. Lucy R. McNair is a translator and Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College, The City University of New York, where she co-leads a faculty seminar on Language Across the Curriculum and co-curates the New York Forum of Amazigh Film. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and a M.A. in Modern Languages. Her literary translations and scholarship focus on francophone North Africa and its diaspora, including Amazigh literature and film. Her literary translations include Mouloud Feraoun’s Algerian classic, The Poor Man’s Son (University of Virginia Press, 2005), Moroccan writer Edmond Amran El Maleh’s short story, “Taksiat,” (Poems for the Millennium, Volume Four, University of California Press, 2012), and poetry by Andrée Chedid, Venus Khoury-Ghata and Amina Said (The Poetry of Arab Women, Interlink Publishing Group, 2000). She contributed translations to SOUFFLES-ANFAS: A Critical Anthology from the Moroccan Journal of Culture and Politics (Stanford University Press, 2015) and Lamalif: A Critical Anthology of Societal Debates in Morocco during the Years of Lead (1966-1988), (Liverpool University Press, 2023). Her articles appear in Jaddaliyya, Language, Culture and Curriculum, and Journal of North African Studies.

Dr. Wafa Bahri received her Ph.D. in Linguistics (Sociolinguistics) from The Graduate Center-CUNY and her MA in Applied Linguistics from the Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia. She joined the faculty of the Modern Language Department at The University of Colorado Denver in 2020, where she teaches Linguistics Courses.  Her primary research focuses on the documentation and description of Tunisian Tamazight and the discursive display of Tamazight language and identity on Social Networking Sites (SNS). Her additional interests focus on language and gender, language and identity, and endangered languages. Her recent publication is a co-edited volume: Digital orality: vernacular writing in online spaces (Palgrave) and she has a forthcoming chapter on Amazigh activism in film.  She is also an editor of the Journal of Amazigh Studies (JAS) and a regular contributor to the Amazigh Voice newsletter. 

Dr. Yahya Laayouni is an Associate Professor at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the complexity of identity formation in “French” films of children of North African origins living in France. He is interested in questions of religion, gender and sexuality in film. He is also interested in topics related to alterity and postcolonial subjectivity. A list of selected publication include a recent article published on Jadaliyya on Amazigh cinema, an article in the Journal of Religion and Film: "From Marseille to Mecca: Reconciling the Secular and the Religious in Le grand voyage (The Big Trip) (2004)," several several film reviews in The French Review Journal such as "Nabil Ayouch's Much Loved, Hicham Lasri's C'est eux les chiens, Boris Lojkin's Hope and Danielle Arbid's Peur de rien. He has also published a review of Djemaa Maazouzi's book Le partage des mémoires: la guerre d’Algérie en littérature, au cinéma et sur le web.