Zahra Ali is associate professor of sociology at Rutgers University-Newark. Her work explores (racial) capitalism, (post)coloniality, decolonial theory, and transnational feminisms as well as critical knowledge making and epistemologies with a focus on Iraq, the Middle East, and Muslim communities. She is the author of Women and Gender in Iraq, and founder of Critical Studies of Iraq, an initiative that centers the knowledge making and epistemologies of social scientists and feminists based in Iraq. Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun is professor emerita of political sociology at the University of Paris Cité. Author of many books and articles, she is editor of Tumultes an interdisciplinary journal of critical political theory. She received the Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award from the Caribbean Philosophical Association, and recently published L’impensé colonial des sciences sociales in collaboration with Aissa Kadri. Her forthcoming book But a Life is an intellectual autobiography.
