Saleem Kidwai is a medieval historian, scholar and translator. He has co-edited Same-sex Love in India: Readings from Literature and History, a pioneering work documenting and exploring the indigenous routes of same-sex desire in South Asia. He has translated Qurratulain Hyder's Chandni Begum; the singer, Malka Pukhraj's autobiography, Song Sung True; and Mirror of Wonders and Other Tales, a collection of short stories by Syed Rafiq Hussain.
Samer Al-Saber is assistant professor of theatre and performance studies at Stanford University. He is a director and scholar of theatre in the Middle East.
Karl Korsch (1886-1961) was a prominent German Marxist theorist, writer, and revolutionary. He was a member of the German Communist Party until the 1920s, and went into exile in 1933, eventually re
