Riad currently serves as the editor-in-chief of Muftah, a role he has held since the magazine’s relaunch in 2024. Previously, from 2016 to 2019, he was a co-editor at the magazine. In addition to his editorial responsibilities, Riad is pursuing his PhD at Georgetown University, with a research focus on the history of modern philosophy. His academic background includes an MA in philosophy from the University of Toledo, an MSc in political theory from the University of Edinburgh, and a BA in philosophy from the George Washington University.

Mohammed has served as the managing editor of Muftah since the magazine’s 2024 relaunch. He is the translator of the 2018 Arabic edition of S. Sayyid’s Recalling the Caliphate: Decolonization and World Order (Hurst/OUP, 2014). Mohammed holds a PhD in Islamic studies from Georgetown University, an MSc in political theory from the London School of Economics, an MA in Islamic studies from the University of Khartoum, and an MEng in systems engineering from Loughborough University. He currently teaches at the University of Otago.

Sulaiman is Muftah’s creative director, helping to re-envision the magazine for its 2024 relaunch. As a developer and designer, he has worked on and assisted in the creation of hundreds of projects with various companies and individuals over the past fifteen years. In addition to his creative responsibilities, Sulaiman is the co-founder of The Bounty Collegium, a private academy that aims to foster the full potential of young innovators and ensure they live with purpose in the world.

Khadijah serves as a co-editor of Muftah. She is currently a PhD student at the George Washington University in the American Studies department. Her research interests include Black daily life, Black women’s history and feminism, resistance movements of the 1960s and 1970s, the production and record keeping of oral history, and the proliferation of Islam in the United States with a focus on Washington, D.C. Khadijah holds an MA in history and education from the Teachers College at Columbia University, and a BA in history and Africana studies from Lafayette College.

Toqa is a co-editor at Muftah and a PhD student at Georgetown University’s Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, with research interests in language, the transference and cultivation of ethics, and the colonial rupture. Toqa received her MA in Islamic studies from Columbia University’s Middle East Institute, and her BA from Columbia College with a double major in anthropology and political science.

Ahmed is a co-editor at Muftah. He is currently a PhD student at Princeton University, where he studies the theorization, creation, and circulation of self-consciously “Islamic” fiction across modern Egypt, Turkey, and India. Ahmed’s other interests include the history of history, techno-spirituality, and architecture. Ahmed graduated from Yale University with a BA in history and political science. Prior to his doctoral studies, he worked as a managing editor and features reporter, with a focus on religion, culture, and media.

Maryam is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School. She founded Muftah in May 2010 and served as the magazine’s editor-in-chief until its hiatus in 2019. At Colorado, Maryam teaches and writes in the areas of national security law and public international law, with a particular focus on the Middle East and North Africa. Her book, The Future of the Arab Spring: Civil Entrepreneurship in Politics, Art, and Technology Startups was published by Elsevier in 2013. You can follow her popular and scholarly writing here, as well as on X at @MsJamshidi.