Jamal Al Shalabi & Nadeem Akhtar Jamal Al Shalabi is Professor of Political Science at the Hashemite University, and a Lecturer at the Royal Jordanian National Defense College. He obtained PhD in Political Science and International Communication from University Paris 2 Pantheon Assas (Sorbonne) in 1995. He has won several prizes including The Arab Academic Award in Tunisia, Abdul Hamid Shoman Award for Arab Researchers in Amman and UNESCO-Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture in Paris. He is also a member of several academic bodies in Arab and Europe. Nadeem Akhtar is a Visiting Faculty of Persian at Ashoka University, India. He obtained his PhD in Persian Literature from Centre of Persian and Central Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is a member of the Association of Iranian Studies and has presented research articles in its biennial conferences held in Montreal and Vienna. He has also taught the Persian language in various Summer Schools organized for the students of George Washington University and Indian universities in Institute of Indo-Persian Studies at Delhi, Kolkata and Hyderabad. He is also Joint Secretary of the Institute.