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Marilyn Booth translated Nawal al-Sa‘dawi’s memoirs into English as Memoires...

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Neve Gordon teaches political science at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel.

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Nina Sovich holds an M.A. from the Fletcher School of Diplomacy at Tufts University and is a...

Nitza Berkovitch is assistant professor of sociology at Ben Gurion University in Israel.

Noman Kanafani is an associate professor of economics at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural...

Norma Claire Moruzzi is associate professor of political science and gender and women’s studies...

Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney, assistant professor at George Mason University and co-...

Nubar Hovsepian teaches political science at Chapman University in Orange, California.

Nur Elmessiri, assistant professor of comparative literature at the American University in Cairo...

Omar Jabary Salamanca is lecturer in the Department of Conflict and Development at Ghent...

Omar Razzaz teaches at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at Massachusetts Institute...

Omar Sirri is a doctoral student in political science at the University of Toronto.

Omnia Khalil is an urban researcher and co-founder of 10 Tooba—Applied Research in the Built...

Oren Yiftachel is professor of geography at Ben Gurion University in Beersheva, Israel, and a...

Paola Rivetti is a lecturer of politics of the Middle East at Dublin City University.

Parastou Hassouri has lived in Cairo since September 2005. She is primarily engaged in the field...

Pascale Ghazaleh is a doctoral candidate at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales,...

Patricia Gossman is an independent consultant on human rights and the rule of law in South Asia...

Patrick Gilkes has worked for many years in the Horn of Africa as a journalist for the BBC and...

Paul Lalor was a doctoral student at St. Anthony’s College, Oxford.

Paul Schemm is a journalist based in Cairo.

Paul Silverstein is associate professor of anthropology at Reed College and chair of MERIP's...

Per Oskar Klevnas is former research officer for the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq, based...

Peri Raouf is an Iraqi entrepreneur and consultant doing business in Iraq and surrounding...

Persis M. Karim is a doctoral candidate in comparative literature at the University of Texas at...

Pete Moore is associate professor of political science at Case Western Reserve University and an...

Peter Gran teaches history at Temple University.

Peter Hart is media activism director at Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting, the progressive...

Peter Johnson is a founder of MERIP.

Peter Ogram was an intern for Middle East Research and Information Project.

Peter Verney is editor of Sudan Update, based in London.

Philip Khoury is Ford International Professor of History and associate provost at MIT.

Philip Robins heads the Middle East program at the Royal Institute for International Affairs in...

Philippe Fargues is a demorgrapher and director of the Centre d'etudes et de documentation...

Pierre-Jean Luizard is a researcher with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and...

Quil Lawrence is a staff correspondent for Public Radio International's "The World."

Raad Alkadiri is a partner and director at PFC Global Risk in Washington, DC.

Raja Khalidi is a Palestinian development economist who served with the UN Conference on Trade...

Rajan Menon is the Chair of the Department of International Relations and at Lehigh University...

Ralf Bäcker is program coordinator for Medico International in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Ramin Sadighi is director of Hermes Records, an independent label with over 50 titles.

Ranjit Singh is assistant professor of political science at the University of Mary Washington in...

Rashid Khalidi, a contributing editor to this magazine, is the the Edward Said Professor of...

Ray Bush teaches at the University of Leeds.

Rebecca Milligan is a researcher for Human Rights Watch.

Rebecca Granato is visiting assistant professor and assistant dean at al-Quds Bard College for...

Rebecca L. Stein is associate professor of cultural anthropology at Duke University and author...

Reem Haddad is a correspondent for The Daily Star, Beirut's only daily English language...

Reidar Visser is a research fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and...

Rema Hammami is an anthropologist teaching at Birzeit University in the West Bank.

Rend Rahim Francke is the director of the Iraq Foundation in Washington, DC.

Reva Dhingra was a 2014-2015 Fulbright fellow in Amman, Jordan, and currently works with the...

Rex Wingerter is a Washington-based lawyer and researcher.

Richa Nagar teaches women's studies and geography at the University of Minnesota.

Richard Garfield is Henrik Bendixen Professor of International Nursing at Columbia University...

Rikke Hostrup Haugbølle is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional...

Rivka Azoulay is a doctoral candidate in politics at Sciences Po Paris.

Robert Dillon taught anthropology at City University of New York and lived in Iran from 1970-...

Robert Fisk, foreign correspondent for The Independent, was declared overall winner of...

Robert Mortimer teaches political science at Haverford College in Pennsylvania.

Robert P. Parks, a political scientist, is founding director of the Centre d’Études...

Robert Vitalis is author of America's Kingdom: Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier (Stanford,...

Roderic Pitty is finishing a doctoral dissertation in politics at the Australian National...

Roger Diwan is the Managing Director at the consulting firm PFC Energy.

Roger Heacock taught history at Birzeit University.

Roger Owen, a contributing editor of this magazine, is director of the Center for Middle East...

Ron Kelley studied anthropology at Michigan State and photography at UCLA. For the past few...

Roni Krouzman is a freelance writer and photographer who travels frequently to Israel and...

Roqayah Chamseddine writes the “Sharp Edges” column for Shadowproof.com.

Rosemary Sayigh is an anthropologist and oral historion residing in Beirut. She is the author of...

Saad Rahim is a country strategy analyst at PFC Energy in Washington.

Saba Gul Khattak is deputy director and research fellow at the Sustainable Development Policy...

Sadiq al-Azm teaches philosophy at the University of Damascus.

Sahar Khalifeh is a Palestinian novelist.

Salim Nasr was an editor of this magazine.

Sally Ethelston was vice-president for communications at Population Action International.

Sam Bahour is a Palestinian business management consultant living in Ramallah.

Sameer Abraham is a research associate at the Center for Urban Studies of Wayne State University...

Sameera Fazili is an economic development specialist and an adjunct lecturer at Yale University'...

Samer Shehata is assistant professor of Arab politics at the Center for Contemporary Arab...

Sami Zubaida, a contributing editor of this magazine, is author of Law and Power in the Islamic...

Samih Farsoun was a contributing editor of this magazine and professor of sociology at American...

Sandra Beth Doherty graduated in 2008 from Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab...

Sandy Sufian is an assistant professor of medical humanities and history at the University of...

Sara Roy is a senior research scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard...

Sarah Phillips is a lecturer at the Centre for International Studies at the University of Sydney...

Sarah A. Tobin is associate director of Middle East studies at Brown University.

Sarah Carr is a journalist in Egypt.

Sarah Graham-Brown has written extensively on the Middle East. She is the author of Sanctioning...

Sarah Waheed is a historian of South Asia. She has taught at Georgetown University, George Mason...

Saree Makdisi is assistant professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of...

Sateh Nourredine is managing editor of the Beirut daily newspaper As-Safir.

Scott Peterson is a correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor.

Scott Harding is an assitant professor of social work at the University of Connecticut.

Scott Michaelsen is associate professor of English at Michigan State University.

Sebnem Atiyas was the New York correspondent for Cumhuriyet.

Semira N. Nikou is an attorney based on Honolulu. She was previously a law fellow with the US...

Shahnaz Rouse teaches sociology at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York.

Shalash al-`Iraqi is an Iraqi columnist.

Shana Marshall is associate director of the Institute for Middle East Studies and research...

Sharon K. Weiner is associate professor in the School of International Service at American...

Shawna Bader-Blau is senior program officer in the Middle East North African Department at the...

Sheila Carapico is professor of political science and international studies at the University of...

Shelagh Weir, former Middle East curator for the British Museum, is an independent writer and...

Sherine Hafez is associate professor of gender and sexuality studies at the University of...

Shima Houshyar is a doctoral candidate in anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City...

Shlomo Frenkel is the economics editor of Hadashot, an Israeli daily newspaper.

Shuang Wen is a doctoral candidate in history at Georgetown University.

Silvia Pasquetti is lecturer in sociology at Newcastle University.

Simon Bromley is a senior lecturer in International Political Economy at the University of Leeds...

Sinan Antoon, an Iraqi writer and poet, teaches at the Gallatin School of New York University....

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Sohair Mehanna is a senior researcher in the Social Research Center of the American University...

Sohrab Mahdavi is co-founder and editor of TehranAvenue.com.

Sondra Hale is professor emerita of anthropology at UCLA.

Sophia Hoffmann is a consultant based in Berlin, and has worked on migration in the Levant for...

Stanley Cohen is a professor of criminology at Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

Stephanie Koury served as an adviser to the Palestinian team negotiating with Israel on...

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Stephen R. Shalom is professor of political science at William Paterson University in Wayne, NJ...

Stephen Zorn is a consultant with Tanzer Economic Associates in New York.

Steve Negus is an editor at the Institute for War and Peace Reporting center in Baghdad. He...

Steve Rothman is an MA candidate in Arab studies at Georgetown University.

Steven Brooke is assistant professor of political science at the University of Louisville.

Steven Glazer is professor of history at Graceland University in Lamoni, Iowa.

Suad Joseph is a professor of Anthropology and Women’s Studies at University of California...

Suheir Abu Oksa Daoud is associate professor of politics at Coastal Carolina University in...

Sumit Sarkar teaches at Delhi University.

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Suzanne Ruggi is a staff reporter for The Jerusalem Times.

Taline Voskeritchian writes on film from California.

Tamir Moustafa is assistant professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin,...

Ted Swedenburg, an editor of this magazine, teaches anthropology at the University of Arkansas...

Thabit Abdullah is professor of Middle East history at York University in Toronto.

Thomas Abowd is assistant professor of anthropology at Wayne State University.

Thomas Stevenson teaches anthropology on Ohio University’s regional campus. He is author...

Tim Coone covers Third World developments for several British media outlets.

Tim Niblock is the director of the MA program in Middle East Politics at the University of...

Timothy Mitchell, a contributing editor to Middle East Report, teaches politics and...

Toby Shelley is the author of Endgame in the Western Sahara: What Future for Africa's Last...

Toby Matthiesen is a research fellow at the University of Cambridge.

Tom Nieuwenhuis is a Dutch historian specializing in Iraq.

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Ümit Cizre is professor of politics and founder and former director of the Center for...

Ursula Lindsey is a Cairo-based reporter and writer. She contributes regularly to The Arabist...

Vahid Nowshirvani teaches anthropology at Columbia University.

Vickie Langohr teaches political science at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester,...

Victoria Bernal is associate professor anthropology at the University of California, Irvine.

Vinay Lal is an associate professor in the Department of History at University of California in...

Vivienne Matthies-Boon is assistant professor of international relations of the Middle East at...

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Ward Sayre is assistant professor of political science at the University of...

Will Swearingen is assistant professor of geography at Colgate University and author of Moroccan...

William Harris is professor of politics at the University of Otago in New Zealand.

William Lafi Youmans is assistant professor of media and public affairs at George Washington...

Yael Ben-zvi is in the modern thought and literature program at Stanford University.

Yahya Sadowski is an Arizona-based consultant for PFC Energy.

Yasmin Moll is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan and...

Yavuz Yaşar is associate professor of economics at the University of Denver.

Yezid Sayigh is a professor of Middle East Studies in the Department of War Studies at King...

Yoav Di-Capua is Assistant Professor of Middle East History at the University of Texas-Austin....

Youcef Bouandel is a senior lecturer in political science at the University of Lincoln in...

Yuksel Taskin is associate professor of politics at Marmara University in Istanbul.

Zachary Davis Cuyler is a Ph.D. student at New York University. He holds an M.A. in Arab studies...

Zaid Al-Ali is a lawyer at the New York Bar, specializing in comparative constitutional law and...

Zama Coursen-Neff is a researcher for Human Rights Watch.

Zein El-Amine’s poems have been published in Wild River Review, Folio,...

Zeina Azzam Seikaly is director of Educational Outreach at the Center for Contemporary Arab...

Zia Mian is a physicist with the Program on Global Peace and Security at Princeton University...

Ziad Abu-Rish is assistant professor of Middle East history at Ohio University and co-editor of...

Zjaleh Hajibashi is a professor of Middle East and Southeast Asian culture and language at...