Penny Johnson is an associate editor of the Jerusalem Quarterly. Her book Companions in Conflict: Animals in Occupied Palestine will be published by Melville House Books in February 2019. Islah Jad is a faculty member in the Department of Cultural Studies and Philosophy and the Institute of Women’s Studies at Birzeit University. Her book Palestinian Woman’s Activism: Nationalism, Secularism, Islamism was published by Syracuse University Press in 2018.