Norman Saadi Nikro has a Lebanese-Australian background, and is currently a Research Fellow at Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin. He previously held the position of Assistant Professor at Notre Dame University in Lebanon, 2001-2007. His work has been published in the journals Southerly, Plurale: Zeitschrift fur Denkversionen, Postcolonial Text, and the edited volume Politics, Culture and the Lebanese Diaspora (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010).