Samuel Noble, MPhil (2009, Yale University),  obtained a PhD in 2022 from KU Leuven. His research focuses on the social and intellectual history of Arab Christians, particularly in the Patriarchate of Antioch. He is a co-editor of The Orthodox Church in the Arab World (700-1700): An Anthology of Sources (2014) and Arabic Christianity between the Ottoman Levant and Eastern Europe (2021), and co-translator from Russian of Arab Orthodox Christians under the Ottomans 1516-1831 (2016).