Prof. Dr. Udo Steinbach studied history, languages, religion, culture and literature of Persian-, Turkish- and Arabian-Speaking Islamic countries as well as classical philology in Freiburg i.Br. and Basel from 1965 to 1970. He received his PhD in the same year. From 1971 to 1974 Steinbach was director of the Middle East department of German government's Think-Tank Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik. After one year as the head of the Turkish Department of German radio station Deutsche Welle, Steinbach became director of German Institute for Middle East Studies until 2006. The last year before his retirement Udo Steinbach was director of GIGA Institute of Middle East Studies. Since 2012 he is head of Governance Center Middle East/North Africa at Humboldt-Viadrina School of Governence in Berlin. Steinbach published numerous books and articles about Islam and the Middle East. Lorenzo Vidino, Ph.D., is an academic and security expert who specializes in Islamism and political violence in Europe and North America. He has held positions at the Center for Security Studies(ETH Zurich), the RAND Corporation, the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs(Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University), and the U.S. Institute of Peace. He has taught at Tufts University, the University of Maryland(START), the National Defense University and the University of Zurich. He is the author of several books and frequent articles in several prominent newspapers(such as The International Herald Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe…) and academic journals(such as Studies in Conict and Terrorism, The Washington Quarterly, Terrorism and Political Violence…). He has testied before the U.S. Congress and consults with governments, law rms, think tanks and media in several countries. A native of Milan, Italy, he holds a law degree from the University of Milan Law School and a doctorate in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Esad Hecimovic studied philosophy and sociology at the University of Sarajevo. He worked as correspondent for"Evening News”, a Belgrade based newspaper with the highest circulation in ex-Yugoslavia, as analyst in "Muslim's voice”, a Sarajevo based weekly, in the chief of Press ofce of"Territorial defense" for central Bosnia, as political analyst in the central ofce and main board of the SDA party. He was political analyst in"Lillian”, the leading national weekly at that time, and since then is journalist for"BH Days”, the most inuential weekly in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He reported from several international conferences, among these the 8th Summit of Organization of Islamic countries in Teheran in 1997, the conference on"Islamism and European security”, in Aarhus, Denmark, in June 2006, and made a study travel to London and Manchester about British Muslims in 2006. He wrote several books, articles, and essays, and gives interviews on a regular basis.