Dr Ghada Karmi was born in Jerusalem but brought up in Britain. She qualified as a doctor of medicine at the University of Bristol before diversifying her field and gaining a Ph.D. in medieval Islamic medicine from the University of London. She has been a political activist concerned with the Arab-Israeli conflict since the 1970s and has written extensively on the subject. She is also a regular contributor to the debate in the British media. Ghada Karmi is currently Research Associate at the Centre of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. In 1994 she set up the International Campaign for Jerusalem which she currently chairs.

Eugene Cotran (LLD) has been a circuit judge in England since 1992. He is a visiting professor of Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, and the Chairman of the Centre of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law at the School. He was formerly a practising barrister in England and the Commonwealth, and a law commissioner and high court judge in Kenya. He is a board member of the Palestinian Independent Commission for Citizen Rights. He has numerous publications on the laws of Africa, the Commonwealth and the Middle East and is the General Editor of Butterworth's Emigration Law Service and the Year Book of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law.