Ali Polat is currently a professor at Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University. He graduated from Istanbul University, College of Political Sciences in 1997. Dr. Polat completed his MA in 1999 and Ph.D. in 2007, both from Marmara University, Institute of Banking and Insurance, Istanbul, Turkey. During his education, he worked for Faisal Finance, Family Finance and Turkiye Finance, all of which are participation banks licenced in Turkey. In 2009, Prof. Polat began teaching at King Saud University, College of Business Administration, Finance Department and continued until 2014. He held several public positions from 2014 to 2018. He also taught at the University of Hail, CBA, Economics and Finance Department during the 2019-2020 academic year. Prof. Polat research interests include International Trade and Finance, Islamic Banking, Banking Operations and Islamic Economics.

Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Kenan Aslanlı, Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt Üniversitesi (AYBÜ), Uluslararası İlişkiler Bölümü öğretim üyesidir. 2018-2023 yıllarında İran Araştırmaları Merkezinde (İRAM) enerji ve politik ekonomi konularında uzman olarak çalışmalar yapmıştır. 2016 yılında Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt Üniversitesi, Uluslararası İlişkiler Bölümünde (İngilizce) başladığı doktora programını Rusya’nın dış enerji politikası ve enerji anlaşmazlıklarını konu alan tezini 2022 yılında savunarak tamamladı ve doktor (PhD) unvanı aldı. Bremen Üniversitesi Doğu Avrupa Araştırmaları Merkezinde (Forschungsstelle Osteuropa) araştırmacı (Almanya), Viyana BFI Uygulamalı Bilimler Üniversitesinde ise misafir öğretim görevlisi (Avusturya) olarak bulundu.

Omair Anas teaches International Relations at Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University. He did his PhD on Transnational Arab Media Culture and the Arab Diaspora in Germany from Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India. From 2012 to 2013, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Freie University, Berlin, conducting extensive fieldwork on Arab communities in Berlin and other cities. He has contributed to many edited volumes and journals on the transnational Arab diaspora. Prior to joining Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University in 2018, he was a Research Fellow at the Indian Council of World Affairs in New Delhi from 2015-2018. His publications include edited volumes Turkey’s Asia Relations (Palgrave 2022) and India-Turkiye Relations: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (APAM Ankara 2023). He teaches Non-Western International Relations, Middle Eastern IR, Religion and Politics, Globalisation and IR, and International Security. And Asian Politics. He is fluent in Arabic, Turkish, and Hindi. He has widely published his opinions on the Middle East Eye, Indian Express, First Post, Daily Sabah, Financial Express, The Diplomat, The Wire, and Qantara. He can be reached at omairanas@hotmail.com