Samuli Schielke is a senior researcher at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin and associate primary investigator at the Berlin Graduate School of Muslim Cultures and Societies. He is author of The Perils of Joy: Contesting Mulid Festivals in Contemporary Egypt (Syracuse University Press, 2012), Egypt in the Future Tense (Indiana University Press, 2015), and Migrant Dreams: Egyptian Workers in the Gulf States (American University in Cairo Press, 2020).