Nicolas Dot-Pouillard, who holds a doctorate from the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), is a researcher at the Institut français du Proche-Orient (IFPO) in Beyrouth (Liban). He is the author of Tunisie. La révolution et ses passés (Iremmo/L’Harmattan, 2013).
Eugénie Rébillard is a specialist in Arabic with a doctorate in history who works at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
Director of research at the CNRS, Olivier Roy is one of the world's greatest specialists in political Islam.