Dalia Mogahed, 04.05.2011

Senior Analyst and Executive Director, Abu Dhabi Gallup Center and Gallup Center for Muslim Studies

As the Obama administration works to explain the goals of the intervention in Libya, something else is making Americans uneasy: the perceived role of religion in the Middle East's uprising.

Timothy Karr, 03.30.2011

Campaign Director, Free Press and SavetheInternet.com

Freedom of speech and assembly shouldn't end at America's border, or whenever we log on to the Internet. It's time Washington took action against U.S. technology companies that are helping despots silence their people.

Courtney C. Radsch, 03.29.2011

Sr. Program Officer, Freedom of Expression Campaign at Freedom House

Twitter, the microblog people love to hate, turned 5 this week. Twitter is probably most famous for the celebrities and politicians that use it to com...

Jamal Dajani, 03.28.2011

VP of MENA/LAC regions at Internews Network

The events in Tunisia and Egypt present an opportunity to address some of the systemic issues around access to information across the region.

Elisabeth Braw, 03.25.2011

Senior Reporter, Metro International

Boutros-Ghali is Egypt's preeminent political insider, and he presided over the United Nations at an extraordinarily turbulent time. I met with him for a lengthy interview in Paris.

Clay Shirky, 03.25.2011

Author, 'Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations'

During the revolution in Egypt, Coptic Christians in Tahrir Square held hands around Muslims conducting Friday prayers to protect them from surprise attack. Why aren't we doing the same here in the United States?

Henry Siegman, 03.23.2011

President, U.S./Middle East Project

The truth the U.S. needs to tell Netanyahu and his government is not that they must return to meaningless peace talks, but that international law and previous agreements do not allow Israel to acquire territory beyond the 1967 border.

Faisal J. Abbas, 03.23.2011

London-based Middle East affairs specialist

What happens to the likes of Al-Ahram now that the Mubarak Regime has collapsed?

John Wagner Givens, 03.23.2011

Doctoral Candidate specializing in Chinese Politics

One day millions of Chinese may take to the streets, more than likely in the context of a slowing economy and/or rising inflation, but don't expect the catalyst to be an external one.

Stephanie Rudat, 03.23.2011

Activist, social entrepreneur

Ahmed Salah, an Egyptian journalist and activist who had survived torture while incarcerated in jail for pushing against the regime, brought his mission to the United States.

Mark Juergensmeyer, 03.23.2011

Author, 'Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence'

The peaceful protesters in Egypt's Tahrir Square succeeded where years of jihadi bloodshed have not produced a single political change. This is a profound anti-jihadi lesson -- it would seem God is really on the side of the people.

Bianca Jagger, 03.23.2011

Founder and Chair, Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation

Are we so complacent that we feel we do not need to demand gender equality? Many women are convinced there is equality between men and women. But this simply is not true. Here are the facts on the matter.

Uriel Abulof, 03.23.2011

Assistant professor, Tel-Aviv University; Associate, Princeton University’s Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination

For two long centuries, the Arab Middle East has struggled to meet the challenge of modernity, a task exacerbated by the lingering, and increasing, dissonance between the glorious past and the shameful present.

Nabil Fahmy, 03.23.2011

Former Egyptian ambassador to US; Dean of the School of Public Affairs, American University in Cairo

Egyptians have traditionally called their country "Om El Donya" or "Mother of the World." But in recent years, Egyptians seemed less confident that th...

Ty McCormick, 03.23.2011

Presidential Intern, American University in Cairo

The Egyptian Revolution is not over, but the period of feel-good flag-waving may be. What I witnessed today was the first time the military has turned decisively against protesters, who are themselves now becoming divided.

Clarence Lusane, 03.23.2011

Professor, American University

The likely fall of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi is not a good sign for Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe. No other international figure has been more politically and economically friendly to Mugabe than he.

Terry Kelhawk, 03.23.2011

Author, 'The Topkapi Secret'

Why is the Muslim Brotherhood content to wait out democracy? Could it be because they have weighed the Raisin Factor -- a sign of religious devotion -- and smell success? The factor is a walking political survey.

Nancy Graham Holm, 04.04.2011

Journalist

Many of us believe it is Islam that prevents women from gender equality while forgetting that Christianity was essentially anti-woman and remained so until the late twentieth century.

Queen Noor of Jordan, 03.23.2011

International humanitarian activist

Too many still equate the soundbites describing women under Taliban rule with the teachings of our faith throughout the Muslim world. But the oppression of women in parts of the Muslim world is not because of Islam, but contrary to it.

Karen Berg, 03.23.2011

Director, Kabbalah Centre International

The time is ripe for us to fulfil our spiritual purpose and to return to our original wholeness as one soul, encompassing all our differences and individual uniqueness.

James Denselow, 03.23.2011

Writer, Middle East geopolitical and security issues

Although the West has appeared largely as a surprised bystander to much of what has been happening in the Middle East that does not mean it cannot expect to reconfigure its policies towards it once the dust has settled