Mubashar Hasan is Adjunct Researcher at the Humanitarian and Development Research Initiative (HADRI), Western Sydney University, Australia. He also works for the NSW Service for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture and Trauma Survivors (STARTTS) and the Diplomacy Training Program and is the author of Islam and Politics in Bangladesh and co-editor of Masks of Authoritarianism, with numerous journal articles.
Arild Engelsen Ruud, a Professor of South Asia studies at the University of Oslo, focuses on democracy and politics in South and Southeast Asia. He is co-author of Mafia Raj: the rule of bosses in South Asia (Stanford University Press) and co-editor of South Asian Sovereignties, Outrage, and Masks of Authoritarianism and author of numerous journal articles He is now leading the Norwegian Research Council funded project ‘Leadership and popular participation in Asian democracies’.