Taqi Al-Din Al-Shalwi was born in Darnah in 1988. He studied pharmacy at the Omar-al-Mukhtar University and has been working as a journalist since 2008. In 2009, he founded the online magazine ‘Irasa.’Abdulaziz el Wasly was born in Tobruk in 1984. He studied economics at the Omar-al-Mukhtar University. Although he has written for years, he officially became a journalist at the beginning of the February 2011 revolution. He currently writes for the independent weekly newspaper 'Al-Ain.'