Qais Akbar Omar is coauthor of A Night in the Emperor's Garden, which has been dramatized by BBC Radio. He has written for the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Boston Globe, the Sunday Times, the Globe and Mail, and the Cairo Review of Global Affairs. In 2014-15 Omar was a Scholars at Risk Fellow at Harvard University.
Neil Shah is an Audie Award-nominated narrator and AudioFile Earphones Award winner who has recorded over one hundred audiobooks. A classically trained actor with an MFA from the Old Globe/University of San Diego program, Neil has appeared off-Broadway and on regional stages, as well as in film and television.