Siamak Seyfi is an associate professor in the Geography Research Unit at the University of Oulu, Finland. His research investigates the political and spatial dimensions of tourism, paying particular attention to questions of resilience, sustainability, and the ways tourism is entangled with geopolitics, especially within the MENA region.
Rasoul Afsari is an assistant professor of urban planning at Supreme National Defense University, Iran, and his work examines urban resilience, tourism planning, and sustainable urban development. He has published widely on how cities respond to crises and long-term pressures, with an interest in planning approaches that support more adaptive and equitable urban futures.
Ali Hosseini is an associate professor of urban geography in the Department of Human Geography and Planning at the University of Tehran, Iran. His research interests span policy analysis, spatial inequality, and tourism planning, with expertise in both quantitative and qualitative methods.