Narges Bajoghli

Narges Bajoghli (pronounced: Nar-guess Baa-jogh-lee) is Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University. She is an award-

Nazanin Shahrokni

I have a PhD in sociology from the University of California at Berkeley. Prior to joining the Gender Studies Department at LSE, I had held positions in various international settings such as Syracu

Tim Mackintosh-Smith

Tim is an Arabist, traveller, writer and lecturer. For almost thirty years his home has been the Yemeni capital San'a where he lives on the ruin-mound of the ancient Sabaean city, next to the moder

Noah Feldman

Noah Feldman specializes in constitutional studies, with a particular emphasis on the relationship between law and religion, free speech, constitutional design, and the history of legal theory.&nbs

Krithika Varagur

Krithika Varagur has sailed to the tiny Indonesian spice island once traded for Manhattan, gone on pilgrimage with Albanian Sufis, circled the US by train as an Amtrak Writer-in-Residence, dog-sled

Jack Tannous

I am interested in the cultural history of the eastern Mediterranean, especially the Middle East, in the Late Antique and early medieval period. My research focuses on the Syriac-speaking Christian

Ronen Bergman

Dr. Ronen Bergman is the Senior Correspondent for Military and Intelligence Affairs for Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel’s largest circulated daily newspaper, and a Contributing Writer for The New York Tim

Karen Berman

Karen Berman was a sought-after expert in the fields of business and financial literacy. Clients praised her ability to understand their business and develop meaningful and engaging programs.

Aaron G Jakes

I am an Assistant Professor of History at The New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College, where I teach courses on the modern Middle East and South Asia, global environmental history, a

George Packer

George Packer is a staff writer at The Atlantic. He is the author of Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal, Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century, The Unwinding: An

Bradley Hope

Bradley Hope is a financial reporter for The Wall Street Journal based in London. He was formerly a correspondent in New York, covering exchanges and market structure. Before that, he was based in

Willem M Floor

Dexter Filkins joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2011. He has written about Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, the uprisings in Yemen, the crises in Syria and Lebanon, the P

Adam Mestyan

Adam Mestyan is a historian of the modern Arab world. Using the approach of global legal history, he is working on a new monograph Modern Arab Kingship (under contract), a social history of constit

Ray Takeyh

Ray Takeyh is Hasib J. Sabbagh senior fellow for Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). His areas of specialization are Iran, political reform in the Middle East, and Islami

Kim Ghattas

After twenty years as a BBC journalist, it was also time to say goodbye to this great institution. I am now a contributing writer at the Atlantic magazine and a non-resident senior fellow at the Ca

Ethan Rundell

Laurence Louër is associate professor at the Center for International Studies (CERI) at Sciences Po in Paris, France. 

Holds degrees in Arabic, philosophy, sociology and political scienc

Amin Saikal

Amin Saikal is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies (the Middle East and Central Asia) at the Australian National University. Professor Saikal has

Jack D Schwager

Mr. Schwager is a industry expert in futures and hedge funds and the author of a number of widely acclaimed financial books. 

Mr. Schwager is one of the founders of Fund Seeder (FundSeed

Josh Lerner

Josh Lerner graduated from Yale College with a special divisional major. He worked for several years on issues concerning technological innovation and public policy at the Brookings Institution, fo

Nate Silver

Nate Silver is a statistician, forecaster, entrepreneur, and journalist. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of Five ThirtyEight and a special correspondent for ABC News. 

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