Karim Mezran is a senior fellow at the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East at the Atlantic Council and a professor at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.
Federica Saini Fasanotti is a military historian and non-resident fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, where she actively collaborates with the Pentagon as a consultant on Libya to the Secretary of Defense James Mattis. She has published many articles with international magazines and six scientific studies on military history.