Adnan Oktay, Professor Dr., entered the Department of Turkish Language and Literature, Faculty of Letters, Istanbul University in 1996. He graduated from this department in 2000. He began his master's degree with a thesis in the Department of Turkish Language and Literature, Institute of Social Sciences, Istanbul University, graduating with a thesis titled "Social, Cultural and Historical Texture in the Diwan of İshak Çelebi from Skopje." In 2009, he began working as a research assistant in the Department of Turkish Language and Literature, Faculty of Art, Mardin Artuklu University. In the fall of 2009, he began his doctoral program in the Department of Turkish Language and Literature, Institute of Educational Sciences, Dicle University, graduating with a thesis titled "Nabi's Munshaat: Analysis-Text." He currently serves as a faculty member in the Department of Turkish Language and Literature, Faculty of Art, Mardin Artuklu University. adnanoktay@artuklu.edu.tr

Asst. Prof. Dr. Mitat Çekici enrolled in the Department of Persian Language and Literature at the Faculty of Letters, Erzurum Atatürk University in 2006 and graduated in 2010. He continued his education in the Master’s program with thesis at the Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Persian Language and Literature at the same university, from which he graduated in 2012. Between 2014 and 2018, as an official scholarship holder of the Ministry of National Education, he pursued his doctoral studies at the University of Tehran (Iran) in the Department of Persian Language and Literature on behalf of Mardin Artuklu University. Since 2019, he has been serving as a faculty member in the Department of Persian Language and Literature at the Faculty of Letters, Mardin Artuklu University.

Göksu graduated from the Department of Computer Education at Mersin University, Tarsus Technical Education Faculty, in 2007. Following graduation, Göksu served as an Information Technologies Teacher from 2007 to 2009. Göksu furthered their academic journey by completing a master's degree in Computer and Instructional Technologies Education (BÖTE) at Fırat University in 2012, and subsequently earned a doctoral degree in the same field from Atatürk University in 2016. From 2009 to 2016, Göksu served as a Lecturer in the Computer Technologies department at Midyat Vocational School. In 2016, Göksu joined Mardin Artuklu University as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Sciences, Division of Educational Programs and Instruction. Göksu was awarded the title of Associate Professor in BÖTE in 2021 and continues to serve in the same department. Currently, Göksu teaches "Instructional Technologies" at the undergraduate level, and "Scientific Research Methods," "Academic Writing Techniques," and "Technology Integration in Education" at the graduate level. Göksu's research interests encompass a broad range of topics, including educational technologies, instructional design, distance education, mobile learning, virtual reality, digital games, and digital media.

He was born in 1976 in Herne, Germany. In 2009, he completed his undergraduate studies in Oriental Studies, Islamic Studies, and Religious Studies at Ruhr University Bochum. In 2011, he obtained his master’s degree in Islamic Studies from the same university. In the same year, he began his doctoral studies at Goethe University Frankfurt.

Between 2013 and 2015, he worked as an assistant and lecturer at Justus Liebig University in Gießen. In 2016, he completed his doctoral dissertation entitled “Die theologischen, juristischen und sozialen Dimensionen der Sünde im Koran – The Theological, Legal, and Social Dimensions of Sin in the Qur’an” with the distinction summa cum laude.

Since 2017, he has been working at DITIB-ZSU as the Head of the Translation and Editorial Unit. Among the works he has contributed to as an editor and translator is the seven-volume “Islam Through Hadiths”, published in German by the Presidency of Religious Affairs (Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı) and Ditibverlag (DITIB-ZSU e.v.).

Including his doctoral thesis, he has published four books. He has also authored numerous articles in both German and Turkish, which have appeared in academic and intellectual journals as well as in contemporary media outlets. He continues his writing and research activities.

He is married and the father of three daughters.

Hakan Gülerce completed his master's degree at Istanbul University, Department of Social Structure-Social Change in 2012 with his thesis titled “The Role of Editing in the Development of Social Sciences and a Sociological Study on Academic Journal Editors”. He graduated from the Department of Sociology of the same university in 2017 with his doctoral thesis titled “The Reproduction of Christianity in the Encounter with Modernity”. In 2018, Gülerce started to work as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Harran University and continued her postdoctoral studies in the fields of migration, social cohesion, youth studies, modernity and religion.

Gülerce received the title of associate professor in the fields of Sociology of Migration and Sociology of Religion in 2022. Gülerce, who is the director of Harran University Migration Policies Application and Research Center, has been and continues to be the coordinator of various projects on migration, forced migration, Syrians in Turkey and social cohesion in this center.

Gülerce, who served as the secretary general of the International Federation of Social Science Organizations between 2012-2019, assumed the presidency between 2019-2023.  He is currently a board member of the same organization.

Deniz Işıker Bedir, Mardin Artuklu Üniversitesi Psikoloji Bölümünde Dr. Öğr. Üyesi olarak çalışmaktadır. Lisans eğitimini Yakın Doğu Üniversitesi Psikoloji Bölümünde, Yüksek Lisans eğitimini İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Kültürel İncelemeler alanında, Doktora eğitimini ise İstanbul Üniversitesi-Cerrahpaşa Adli Tıp Enstitüsü Sosyal Bilimler Anabilim Dalında “Yaşlılıkta İstismar, İhmal ve Başa Çıkma Stratejileri” başlıklı teziyle tamamlamıştır. Yaşlılık, yaşlı istismarı, adli psikoloji ve travma gibi alanlarda çalışmalar yapmaktadır.
Deniz Işıker Bedir’in 28 Şubat’ın Psikolojik Etkileri ve Yaşlı İstismarı ve İhmali adlı iki kitabı bulunmaktadır. Ayrıca Psikoloji Tarihi başlıklı kitabın editörlüğünü üstlenmiştir. 

He completed his undergraduate education at the Department of Psychology at Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf University. He completed his master's degree at the Department of Philosophy at İstanbul 29 Mayıs University. He is currently pursuing his doctoral studies at the Department of Philosophy at Istanbul University. He continues his research in the fields of logic, philosophy of language, and metaphysics.