D. Fairchild Ruggles is a Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has co-edited and authored several books including Gardens, Landscape, and Vision in the Palaces of Islamic Spain (2000), and Islamic Gardens and Landscapes (2008).
Uday Narkar is the translator of several books from English to Marathi and vice-versa. He taught at the Yashwantrao Chavan College, Kolhapur, for 16 years, and was a senior producer in ETV-Mar
Atilio A. Borón is a political scientist and sociologist. He has been a professor at the Social Sciences Faculty of the University of Buenos Aires since 1986. He is a senior researcher at CONICE