Ali Jalalian Daghigh, PhD, is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, Universiti Malaya (UM). He teaches a range of translation as well as discourse analysis courses at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. His main research interests include Translation Studies as well as (Critical) Discourse Studies.

Dr Nurul Shamsinah is currently a senior lecturer and a plant microbiologist at the Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Universiti Malaya (UM). She graduated with Bac. in Agriculture Science from Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) in 2009 and obtained her PhD from UM in 2017. Currently, she is an active member of the Malaysian Agroecology Society for Sustainable Resource Intensification (SRI-Mas), Malaysia and the Malaysian Society for Microbiology. Her field of interest is in plant disease diagnostics which is rooted in the intention to contribute to the enhancements of farmers’ ability to properly detect, manage and recover from the devastating consequences of plant disease outbreaks. Besides that, she is also actively doing research on soil microbiome analysis to improve soil health which will subsequently increase agricultural productivity and sustainability.

Mala Rajo Sathian is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Southeast Asian Studies and the founding coordinator of the Thai studies programme, both at Universiti Malaya, Malaysia. She previously held visiting research affiliations at Prince of Songkla University, Pattani campus, Thailand, and as a Fulbright Scholar at the Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, US. Her areas of research include Thailand, south Thailand and north Malaysia, relating to ethnicity and marginalisation, diasporas, conflict, governance and histories of nation building. Her publications include: Siamese in Malaysia: Beyond sixty years of heritage (2018) and various articles and chapters on ethnic minorities, identity, conflict and methodology in area studies.  She hopes to advance a message of peace and tolerance towards minority communities living in multicultural Southeast Asia through her research and writing.