Marie Nassif (Lebanon) has a doctorate in French Language and Literature with a masters degree in Modern and Contemporary History. She is professor Emeritus at the faculty of Pedagogy of the Lebanese University and the “Egalité-Wardah Boutros pour l’action feminine” association for women’s rights within the International Democratic Women’s Federation. She is also a Member of the Economic, Social and Environmental Council of Lebanon and author of several books on the situation of women in Lebanon and the Arab world. Marie Nassif was former general coordinator of the Arab Left Forum and activist against imperialism and its military bases in the Mediterranean.

Marwa Osman (Beirut since last days, before that Gaza ) is a mother of three with a PhD. She is Lecturer at the Faculty of Media and Communication at Maaref University and Lecturer at the School of Arts and Sciences at the Lebanese International University. She is also a Producer/Presenter of *The MidEaStream* political show and *Exposé* social media show at Press TV, and International Affairs Advisor to the Secretary General of the Global Gathering in Support of the Choice of Resistance.

Aseel AlBajeh (Ramallah) completed her LL.M. in International Human Rights Law at the Irish Center for Human Rights at the National University of Ireland, Galway. In addition to her academic research, which focused on transitional justice and decolonisation in Palestine, she writes opinion articles for several media outlets.