Fatemeh Karimi is a Researcher at the Kurdistan Human Rights Network in Paris, where she formerly served as director. She has a PhD in Sociology from the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS), Paris, and previously lectured at the University of Kermanshah in Iran. She is the author of three books.

Janet Biehl was the collaborator of the late Murray Bookchin. She translated Revolution in Rojava by Knapp et al. and the memoirs of the Kurdish revolutionary, Sakine Cansiz.