Ariane Schneck received her PhD from Humboldt University Berlin in 2020. Before joining The American University in Cairo, she held teaching and research positions at Bielefeld University, LMU Munich and the interdisciplinary joint research project Iconoclasm – Making Women in Philosophy More Visible and Establishing New Role Models, funded by the German Ministry for Education and Research. Her research focuses on early modern philosophy and feminist philosophy.

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.

Addison Ellis received his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2019. Before joining 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.

Ahmed Abdel Meguid is a 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 America and Europe including Harvard, Yale and Oxford, and was recently a fellow of the Center for Ethics at the University of Toronto. His research draws on Islamic and German philosophy focusing on metaphysics and epistemology, philosophy of mind and social and political philosophy.

Thomas Rule has been an assistant professor at The American University in Cairo (AUC) since September 2021. He received his PhD in philosophy from the University of California, Santa Cruz, with a dissertation titled The Homely and the Foreign: Heidegger and Thinking the Question of Existential Meaning (2021). As a graduate student instructor, he taught at both the University of California, Santa Cruz and San Francisco State University, where he earned 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. His research interests focus on the nature of normativity and he is currently working on a project that explores the relations between deontic properties and normative reasons.

Alessandro Topa obtained his MA (Lógos and Praxis. The Structure of Practical Knowledge in Plato’s Early Dialogues, 1998) and his 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.