Michael N. Nagler is one of the most respected scholars and defenders of non-violence in the world. He is a professor emeritus of classical and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley. In the same university, Nagler launched the “Peace and Conflict Studies Program”, which is now one of the most extensive of its kind in North America.

He is also the founder and president of The METTA Center for Nonviolence and the author of Our Spiritual Crisis and The Search for a Nonviolent Future, the latter of which won the American Book of the Year award in 2002 and has been translated into several languages. His articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal and elsewhere, and he has been speaking and writing about nonviolence, meditation, and world peace for more than 30 years. Nagler is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of “PeaceWorkers” and one of the pioneer founders of “Nonviolent Peaceforce”, which is now a global provider of non-violent peacekeeping services in Mindanao, Sri Lanka, South Sudan, and many other dangerous areas, to preserve human life and promote human rights. Has acted or is acting as an impartial third party committed to non-violent methods.

However, Michael Nagler’s main preoccupation today is the METTA Center for Nonviolence. He founded this center in 1982 along with others. METTA produces books, videos, blog posts, and other content, as well as creating and managing the Roadmap Project for a Comprehensive Nonviolence Strategy.

You can listen to his book “The Nonviolence Handbook” translated into Farsi by Dr. Farhad Meysami on the Bibliocast podcast.

Born in Bremen in 1959, Mishael Luders studied Arabic literature in Damascus, completed his studies in Islamology, political science, and journalism in Berlin, and wrote his doctoral dissertation on Egyptian cinema.

Luders was the Middle East correspondent for Die Zeit’s weekly newspaper for many years. After the death of Peter Scholl-Latour, he succeeded him as the head of the Deutsch-Arabische Gesellschaft. As an expert on the Middle East and the author of best-selling works, Luders often appears as a guest on radio and television programs. Some of his works include “Days of Anger” (2011) about the Arab Spring, “Iran: The Wrong War” (2012), “The One Who Sows the Wind” (2015), “Those Who Reap the Storm” (2017), and “Armageddon in the Orient” (2018), as well as the thriller novels “Never Say Anything” (2016) and “Jackals’ Tracks” (2020).

“The Sanctimonious Superpower” is the latest work by Michael Luders, published in early 2021.

Dr. Daniele Ganser is a historian and peace researcher. His area of expertise is contemporary history from 1945 onward and international politics, and his research focuses on geopolitics, secret wars, the battle over resources, and human rights. He is the founder and director of the “Swiss Institute for Peace and Energy Research” SIPER, in Basel.

Daniele Ganser has two children and lives with her family near Basel.

“USA: The Ruthless Empire” is his latest work, which was recently translated into Farsi.

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