A literature researcher focused on Arabian literature and a lecturer of the Arabic. Mr. Ondráš graduated from the Orient - Arab studies at the FF of the Charles University (CU) in Prague. He worked as a lecturer of Czech in Cairo from 1990 to 1995. Currently, he lectures at the Near East and Africa Department of the FF CU leading courses of practical Arabic and its Egyptian dialect.

Coming from Jordan, professor Maitah graduated from the Faculty of Social Sciences, UK, the Faculty of International Relations, VŠE and the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, CTU. He spent long years working in the sector of international business. Currently, he is an associate professor of macro-economy and international economy at the Department of International Affairs and at the Department of Economy at the Faculty of Economy and Management of ČZU.

An alumni of the FF of the Charles University (Czech, Arabic and Russian) and the Lomonosov University in Moscow. Mr. Bahbouh is a translator of several well known works of the Czech literature into Arabic (like Čapek's Mother, Drda's The higher principle). He also translated some Arabian literature works into Czech. He is lecturing at the Language School of Prague since 1975.

An Arabist and a student of professor Meir Bar- Ashera. During his studies he visited Paris and Berlin for the study purpose. His main focus is on shia mysticism - the subject of his doctoral thesis was the thinking of shia in the Middle Ages. Currently he teaches classic and modern Arabic and Palestinian dialect at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In addition to teaching he focuses on an important project concerning the myths in Shiite literature.

Doctor Cornelius Hulsman was born in Holland, where he graduated at the University in Leiden from sociology with specialization on eastern Christianity and Islam and their evolution. From 1979 to 1994, Drs. Hulsman was one of the Near East specialists of the Christian Democratic party. He made his first journey to Egypt in 1975, where he spent some time in a Coptic family in Alexandria and in a Muslim family in Cairo.

Narodila se roku 1975 v Sýrii. Vystudovala Vysokou školu v Damašku, kde získala titul JUDr. z islámského práva. Do ČR přišla v roce 2002 a začala se věnovat pedagogické činnosti např. na Diplomatické akademii, na VŠ v Plzni či na Státní jazykové škole v Praze. Roku 2004 stála u zrodu jazykové školy Arabesque, kde byla jednou z prvních vyučujících a nyní je ředitelkou této instituce. V současnosti rovněž působí v o. s. InBáze Berkat.

An alumni of Prague ČVUT was born in Syria in 1953. He is a Syrian opposition politician and a long-time dissident. He belongs to the establishers of „Initiative for a free Syria“. He is also a chairman of it.

Mr. Harmáček graduated from the PhD study of the International Economical Affairs at the University of Economics in Prague (VŠE). The major of his masters study was in the International Affairs and Diplomacy at VŠE and International Development Studies at the Palacký University (UP) in Olomouc.

Souriya Otmani graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Muhammed V. in Rabat in 1978. She worked for the Department of School Education and for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation. In 1994- 1995 she was a chairwomen of the Department of Development Finance Cooperation and then she became a head of the Organization for the Integration of Women in Development.

An analytic of the research center The Association for International Affairs (Asociace pro mezinárodní otázky - AMO) of the Near East and north Africa. Mr. Kužvart specializes in Libya, Lebanon, Syria, and the foreign politics of Qatar. His main interests are security and international-political views. He also graduated from the Arab studies at the department of the Near East and Africa at the FF of the Charles University in Prague.

Anna Pletichová graduated from the Arab studies and history and culture of the Arab countries at the FF UK. As a part of her study program, she took part in the intensive course of the modern Arabic at the Bourguiba Institute in Tunis in July 2007 and 2008. She also spent one semester in Cairo in 2008-2009, where she focused on modern formal Arabic and its Egyptian dialect.

Dr. Křížek graduated from cultural anthropology of the Near East at the FF of the University of West Bohemia, where he is currently lecturing. He specializes in the contemporary Islam mysticism and Islam in general, the medieval Islamic Spain, and the architecture of the Islam cultural sphere. He published several research papers. His PhD degree is in Ethnology - the research of the contemporary mystic order naqšbandíja haqqáníja.

An orientalist, a coworker of the Center of African Studies. Currently, Jakub Kydlíček is a PhD student at FF ZČU in Pilsen, major in Ethnology at the Department of Historical Sciences (Role jazyka v procesu rozvíjení národních identit v severozápadní oblasti Afriky - Případ Alžírska a Maroka) and in History at the Department of the Anthropology (Francouzský protektorát v Tunisku 1881 - 1935: Budování administrativy ve světě francouzské "civilizační mise").

Absolvent oborů francouzština a arabština na Filozofické fakultě Univerzity Karlovy v Praze. Oba tyto jazyky také od roku 1968 vyučuje. Překladatel několika kratších děl moderní arabské literatury do češtiny a také přispěvatel odborných časopisů, zabývajících se současným arabským světem a výukou orientálních jazyků.

Michal Nedelka graduated from cultural anthropology of the Near East at the FF of ZČU in Pilsen. Since 2012 he continues as a PhD student of Judaism at the Hussite Theological Faculty in Prague. He is interested in various phenomenons of the history of religion, either in concrete individuals, movements or currents. He visited Israel several times working as a volunteer in a local kibbutzim.

A director and a translator. Mr. Issa was born in 1945 in Syria, after finishing high school he left for Prague where he graduated from FAMU lead by Elmar Klos, his major in movie directing. Some of his earliest works were short films such as A Cat in the Rain (Kočka v dešti) or Pukrylukri. His first full-length film was Bison in 1990. Others worth mentioning are e.g. a fairy tale The Golden Princess or Františka - About Green Gandles and The Black Mother of God.

An alumni of Arabic, English and American studies at the FF of Charles University in Prague. Currently, she is working on her PhD. thesis, which focuses on the recent Egyptian authoress and on the image of the West in their books. This academic year she is doing a research related to her topic at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She translates from English and Arabic, too.

Barbora Černá graduated from the Arab studies and history and culture of the Islam countries at FF UK. During her study, she visited Cairo for study purposes several times. Her main focus is in the Egypt society and contemporary culture - modern literature, cinematography, and especially media and TV production. Currently, as a PhD student, she is interested in the Egyptian public sphere with a focus on the phenomenon of TV series.

Dr. Ostřanský graduated from the Arab studies and the history and culture of the Islam countries at the FF of the Charles University in Prague. He also lectured Czech at the university in Cairo. Currently, he works as a researcher at the Orient department of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, where he is interested in classical Islam, sufism, folk religiosity, and the culture of the Islam countries in general.

An alumni of politics, philosophy and religion at UK in Prague and University of York. Dr. Fingerland also studied in Stockholm and Jerusalem. He works as a reporter of ČRo, prepares comments for talk-show "Opinions and Arguments (Názory a argumenty)", and is interested especially in the events of the Near East, Asia and Africa.

She graduated from the Middle East Studies in 2007 and she got her PhD degree in The Institute of Middle Eastern and African Studies FF in Prague. She attended an undergraduate training in the Université Via Domitia in Perpignan, France, during the years 2005- 2007. She completed courses of the Modern Standard Arabic and the Arabic dialects in Tunisia, Syria and Yemen.

Lukáš Goga graduated from the international affairs and diplomacy in Prague and consequently focused on the Near East problematic at the FF ZČU in Pilsen, where he graduated from the cultural anthropology of the Near East. In the last years he worked as a correspondent of the Právo journal in Syria and cooperated with some foreign media agencies. He is regularly spending his time in countries of Near East for the last few years, especially in the area of Maschriq.

An alumni of the FF of Charles University in Prague. He studied the Arabic studies and The History and Culture of Islamic countries. During his studies he attended a summer course of the Modern Standard Arabic in the Institut Bourguiba des Langues Vivantes in Tunisia. In 2008 he took part in an archaeological research project in the southern Syria. His main focus in his master thesis was a historical growth of handmade shot-fired guns in the Middle East.

Absolvent magisterského oboru politologie na FSS MU v Brně a doktorského oboru politologie na IPS FSV UK v Praze. Působí na Katedře politologie a mezinárodních vztahů Fakulty filozofické Západočeské univerzity v Plzni a zabývá se především problematikou nacionalismu, globalizace a globálních médií, Balkánu a soudobé politické filozofie.

Zuzana Kudláčková graduated from the FF of the Charles University, her major in the Arabic and translator-interpreter (with specialization in English). She continued to study the Arabic at the Institute Bourguiba des Langues Vivantes in Tunis and on a study session in Cairo, where she attended intensive courses of the formal Arabic and its Egyptian dialect. She works in the area of translation services and she also formally studies the from/to Arabic translations.

An important Czech orientalist, an archaeologist, a historian. Dr. Charvát's main focus is in the oldest development of the earliest states, particularly in Sumer. Along with the Near East region, he is also interested in the older Czech history where he also studies the contact with the Orient.

She studies the Middle Eastern Studies at the FF ZČU, master degree. She is also the chief coordinator of the Festival of Arab Culture. Her main focus in her studies is mainly modern history of Arabic and Islamic countries, literature, and she gives special attention to the culture and the history of Druze community. She is also writing her Master thesis about this topic with the title „The Druze wedding“. She is using data from her research of Lebanese Druze.

Mr. Linder graduated from political studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague. He works as a reporter for the Respekt magazine since January 2008. His focus is on world, especially Germany, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the relationship of rich and poor countries. He was awarded the European Young Journalist Award in 2009 for a reportage on Bulgarian mafia "A Sunrise above the City of Sin (Svítání nad městem hříchu)".