Marnia Lazreg

Marnia Lazreg is professor of sociology at Hunter College. She is a graduate of the University of Algiers from which she received a Baccalaureate in Mathematics, and Philosophy as well as a licence

Behnaz A Mirzai

Behnaz Mirzai is an historian of modern Iran, who teaches Middle Eastern history at Brock University. Her areas of specialization include comparative and cross-cultural studies, ethnicity, slavery,

Michael Provence

Michael Provence teaches modern Middle East history, focusing on the 20th century Arab East. He received the Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2001. During 2017-2018 he was  Chercheur Ré

Alison Weir

Alison Weir is the biggest-selling female historian (and the fifth best-selling historian) in the United Kingdom since records began in 1997. She has published thirty titles and sold more than 3 mi

Frank Ledwidge

Frank spent fifteen years at the front end of British foreign policy, dealing with problems such as torture, human trafficking and war crimes in the Balkans, Central Asia and the Middle East. Prior

Bernard Rougier

Bernard Rougier is a specialist in Middle Eastern Studies. He has been Assistant Professor of Political Science at Clermont-Ferrand University, Sciences Po, Paris and Saint Joseph University, Beiru

Isa Blumi

Isa Blumi is Docent/Associate Professor of Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies at Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies within the Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studie

Erin Banco

Erin Banco is a Middle East reporter, and has been covering armed conflict and human rights violations in the Middle East for six years. She began her career as a freelance reporter in Cairo during

Zeinab Abul-Magd

Zeinab Abul-Magd is an associate professor of Middle Eastern history. She received a PhD in history and political economy in 2008 at Georgetown University, and an MA in Arab studies and Islamic law

Anthony Shadid

Anthony Shadid  was a two-time Pulitzer prize winner journalist and was based in Beirut and Baghdad. He was foreign correspondent for The New York Times. 

Previously he worked for T

Andrew Scott Cooper

Andrew Scott Cooper, Ph.D, is a historian, analyst and the author of two books on the history of the modern Middle East. His first book, The Oil Kings: How the US, Iran and Saudi Arabia Changed the

Lisa Blaydes

Lisa Blaydes is Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. She is the author of Elections and Distributive Politics in Mubarak’s Egypt (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and State of Re

Reza Zia-Ebrahimi

Dr Reza Zia-Ebrahimi joined the History Department at King’s College London in 2013. He is a graduate of the University of Geneva, the London School of Economics and the University of Oxford (St An

Tarek El-Ariss

Tarek El-Ariss is the James Wright Professor at Dartmouth College and Guggenheim Fellow 2021-22. 

Professor Ariss is trained in philosophy, comparative literature, and visual and cultura

Nadav Samin

Nadav Samin is Lecturer in Anthropology and Government at Dartmouth College.  His first book, Of Sand or Soil: Genealogy and Tribal Belonging in Saudi Arabia, was published in 2015 by Princeto

Safwan M Masri

Professor Safwan M. Masri is Executive Vice President for Global Centers and Global Development at Columbia University and a Senior Research Scholar at Columbia’s School of International and Public

Elias Muhanna

Elias Muhanna is a scholar of classical Arabic literature and Islamic intellectual history at Brown University. His research focuses on the history of encyclopedic writing in the Islamic world and

Fawaz A Gerges

Fawaz A. Gerges is Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and holder of the Emirates Professorship in Contemporary Middle East Studies.

Abbas Amanat

Abbas Amanat (B.A., Tehran University, 1971; D. Phil., University of Oxford, 1981) has taught and written about early modern and modern history of Iran, Muslim world, the Middle East and the Persia

James E Rauch

James E. Rauch, associate professor of economics at the University of California, San Diego, and research associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, engaged in a study of what he terms the "n