Cihad Hammy was born in Kobani/Rojava. He studies British and American Studies at the University of Hamburg. Hammy has written various articles on the Kurdish Freedom Movement.

Thomas Jeffrey Miley teaches at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on struggles for self-determination in the twenty-first century. He is co-editor, with Federico Venturini, of Your Freedom and Mine: Abdullah Öcalan and the Kurdish Question in Erdogan's Turkey and author of Self-Determination Struggles: In Pursuit of the Democratic Confederalist Ideal.