Prof. Byram worked as a volunteer teacher of English at a lycée in Mascara, Algeria, in 1965-66 before studying languages at King’s College Cambridge, including a PhD in Danish literature. He then began his professional life as a teacher of foreign languages in secondary education in England, complemented by work in adult education, after which he moved to Durham University School of Education. He worked first in initial teacher education and then increasingly in doctoral education, for professional and academic doctorates. From the 1990s until recently, Prof. Byram was an adviser and expert at the Council of Europe in language policy and intercultural and democratic citizenship. Prof. Byram’s best-known book is Teaching and Assessing Intercultural Communicative Competence, which appeared in a second edition in 2021. In recent years he has focused on doctoral studies: international comparative research on how people experience the PhD as supervisors and supervisees and how it is examined. E-mail: m.s.byram@durham.ac.uk

Karim Sadeghi has a PhD from the University of East Anglia (UK). He is the founding editor-in-chief of the Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research (IJLTR), a Scopus Q1 journal (Top 15 percent). The journal he founded and leads was selected as Iran’s Top Journal in 2020 by the Iranian Ministry of Science, Research and Technology and has consistently received the highest Impact Factor in the list of journals indexed by the Islamic Science Citation Index.His recent publications have appeared in Frontiers in Psychology, Current Psychology, ESP Journal, RELC Journal, System, and Assessing Writing.His monograph, Assessing Second Language Reading, was published in 2021 by Springer. Google citations: 2100+; H-index: 23; i10-index: 56; Web of Science/Publons Researcher

ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1426-9997 E-mail: kerimsadeghi@gmail.com

She holds an MA in Cross Cultural Poetics (ISLT, University of Carthage) and a PhD in English Literature (FLAHM, University of Manouba). She has more than 20 years of teaching experience. Her areas of specialization are World Literature, Maghreban Studies, Comparative Literature, Film Studies, Digital Pedagogy, and Intercultural Communication. She is the author of 2 books: Doris Lessing: Poetics of Being and Time (2016), The Genetic and Generic Affiliations of Rushdie’s Satire in Midnight’s Children (2017); she edited 3 volumes: On Trauma and Traumatic Memory (2017) and Terrorism in Literature: Examining a Global Phenomenon(2019), and Maghrebean Voices: Roots/Routes (to be issued in 2022).She also co-edited 3 other volumes: On History & Memory in Arab Literature & Western Poetics(2020), Poetics of the Native (2021) and The Poetics and Hermeneutics of Pain and Pleasure (2022).She is the author of several academic articles and collections of poems. She delivered presentations in several national/international conferences in Tunisia and abroad. She also organized several conferences and webinars. She is the Founder and Chair of Arts andHumanities Global Network, Vice-Chair of Global Network of Liberal Arts,Steering Committee Member of Challenging Precarity Network, and Member of the Scientific Committee of the Research Laboratory Language and Cultural Forms (University of Carthage). She is a member of the Research Group TrAdE: Translation and Adaptation from/into English (TorVergata University, Rome) of the International Society of Boredom Studies (Madrid-International)and of Doris Lessing Society (Ontario, Canada). She is Afikra Ambassador in Tunisia and Associate Editor of Culture Festival (UK).E-mail: bootheinamajoul@gmail.com