Steffen Stelzer is an emeritus professor of philosophy at The American University in Cairo. Stelzer holds an MA in comparative literature and a PhD in philosophy from Freie Universität in Berlin, Germany. He has been a research scholar at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and at Harvard University's Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Department. Stelzer has also served as a visiting assistant professor at John Hopkins University.

Before joining the Department of Philosophy at The American University in Cairo (AUC), Mario Hubert was the Howard E. and Susanne C. Jessen postdoctoral instructor in the philosophy of physics at the California Institute of Technology from 2019 to 2022. Hubert also received an Early Postdoc Mobility Fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation for conducting research as a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University and New York University between 2018 and 2019.

Addison Ellis received his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2019. Before coming to The American University in Cairo (AUC), he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico City, and a lecturer at the University of Illinois. His research is focused on Kant and post-Kantian European Philosophy (especially Heidegger).

Ahmed Abdel Meguid is an assistant professor at the Department of Philosophy, The American University in Cairo (AUC), Cairo, Egypt. He earned his BA at AUC and his MA and PhD in philosophy at Emory University. He has lectured widely in key institutions in North American and Europe including Harvard, Yale, Oxford, and was recently a fellow of the Center for Ethics at the University of Toronto.

Thomas Rule is an assistant professor at The American University in Cairo (AUC) as of September 2021. He received his PhD in philosophy from the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) with a dissertation entitled The Homely and the Foreign: Heidegger and Thinking the Question of Existential Meaning, 2021. As a graduate student instructor, he taught at both UCSC and, prior to that, San Francisco State University, where he received his MA in philosophy.

Euan Metz received his doctorate from the University of Reading in 2018 and has since held teaching appointments at the University of Reading, the Workers’ Education Association, the University of Bristol, and the Open University. Metz’s research interests focus on the nature of normativity. He is currently working on a research project exploring the relations between deontic properties and normative reasons.

Alessandro Topa obtained both his MA (Lógos and Praxis. The Structure of Practical Knowledge in Plato’s Early Dialogues, 1998) and PhD (Since Thought Needs a Body. The Problem of a Metaphysical Deduction of the Categories in Kant and Peirce, 2006) from the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany, where he studied philosophy, communication research and comparative literature. In 2023 he completed his Habilitation (Living Reason.

Richard Fincham received his BA, MA, with distinction, and PhD from the University of Warwick. He was also a DAAD Stipendiat at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, in 2000 - 2001. Prior to joining The American University in Cairo (AUC), he taught philosophy at both the University of Greenwich and the University of Warwick. He has previously served as graduate program director and chair in the Department of Philosophy.

Catarina Belo is an associate professor of philosophy at The American University in Cairo (AUC). After working as a research fellow on Islamic philosophy in medieval Hebrew manuscripts at the Martin-Buber-Institut für Judaistik, University of Cologne, Germany, Belo joined the Department of Philosophy at AUC in February 2006. 

Walter Lammi is a professor emeritus of philosophy at The American University in Cairo. He received his BA from Stanford University and his PhD from Bryn Mawr College.  His major work is Gadamer and the Question of the Divine(London: Continuum, 2008, American edition 2009). 

He is married to the anthropologist Mulki Al-Sharmani and has one son, Adam.