Wadah Khanfar is the President of Al Sharq Forum and the President and Co-founder of the Common Action Forum. He was the Director General of the Al Jazeera Network from 2003 to 2011. He started his career as a journalist in 1997, serving as a foreign correspondent in many countries including South Africa, Afghanistan and Iraq. As a public intellectual, he has addressed leading universities, political and media think tanks. Aslam Farouk-Alli completed a M.Soc.Sci at the University of Cape Town and lectured part-time in the faculties of religion, language and literature and historical studies. He also holds an MA in Arabic Translation from the University of South Africa (UNISA). He left the academy to pursue a career as a diplomat in the South African Civil Service. He is the author of numerous articles and the First Spring is his third Arabic monograph translation into English.

Wadah Khanfar is the President of Al Sharq Forum and the President and Co-founder of the Common Action Forum. He was the Director General of the Al Jazeera Network from 2003 to 2011. He started his career as a journalist in 1997, serving as a foreign correspondent in many countries including South Africa, Afghanistan and Iraq. As a public intellectual, he has addressed leading universities, political and media think tanks. Aslam Farouk-Alli completed a M.Soc.Sci at the University of Cape Town and lectured part-time in the faculties of religion, language and literature and historical studies. He also holds an MA in Arabic Translation from the University of South Africa (UNISA). He left the academy to pursue a career as a diplomat in the South African Civil Service. He is the author of numerous articles and the First Spring is his third Arabic monograph translation into English.

Wadah Khanfar is the President of Al Sharq Forum and the President and Co-founder of the Common Action Forum. He was the Director General of the Al Jazeera Network from 2003 to 2011. He started his career as a journalist in 1997, serving as a foreign correspondent in many countries including South Africa, Afghanistan and Iraq. As a public intellectual, he has addressed leading universities, political and media think tanks. Aslam Farouk-Alli completed a M.Soc.Sci at the University of Cape Town and lectured part-time in the faculties of religion, language and literature and historical studies. He also holds an MA in Arabic Translation from the University of South Africa (UNISA). He left the academy to pursue a career as a diplomat in the South African Civil Service. He is the author of numerous articles and the First Spring is his third Arabic monograph translation into English.