Middle East and North Africa Experts
Walter Reich is the Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Professor of International Affairs, Ethics and Human Behavior, and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, at The George Washington University; a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center; and a former Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Walter Reich is the Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Professor of International Affairs, Ethics and Human Behavior, and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, at The George Washington University; a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center; and a former Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Dr. Reich is also a Lecturer in Psychiatry at Yale University; Professor of Psychiatry...
William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Anthropology, Princeton University, and Adjunct Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Although originally trained to do anthropological fieldwork in Indonesia, the civil war in that country necessitated my diversion to work in North Africa. As I began to study the forms of social organization in a small city of Morocco and the surrounding countryside I became particularly interested in the ways in which people arranged their relationships with one another and how much the cultural...
Islamic Affairs correspondent for The Washington Post
Mr. Shadid, Islamic Affairs correspondent for The Washington Post and a recent recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, will be working on a book entitled Baghdadat: Iraq's Capital Before and After War--an exploration of the city, its changes and its future after occupation. Prior to joining The Washington Post, Mr. Shadid worked for The Boston Globe, where he covered diplomacy...
Lawyer
Falah Shakarm is a lawyer and currently the Iraqi Project Coordinator for WADI, an international NGO working for empowering civil society and human rights, where he manages projects about women and youth and campaign to stop female genital mutilation on an Iraq and Middle East level. In 2013 he wrote the first draft of law for combating FGM which was submitted to the Iraqi Parliaments. Falah serve...
Assistant Professor of Arab Politics, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
I am an Assistant Professor at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University where I teach courses on different aspects of Middle East politics. Most of my research has focused on Egyptian politics and society, and I am originally from Egypt. Before coming to Georgetown I spent a year at New York University's Center for Near Eastern Studies, where I served as Director of Gradua...
Co-Founder, Aie Serve
Abbas Sibai is from Beirut Lebanon, part of Leaders of Democracy Fellows Program at Maxwell School, Syracuse University NY. He is passionate about creating new initiatives related to active youth participation, environment and health issues. Lately he developed "Live Love Beirut" a crowd source platform for youth mobilization in Lebanon. He is also Program Manager and Communications cons...
Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council's South Asia Center and Washington correspondent for Al-Monitor.com
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Kent State University
Joshua Stacher is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Kent State University. He is the author of Adaptable Autocrats: Regime Power in Egypt & Syria (Stanford UP, 2012). He is a regular contributor and on the editorial board of MERIP's influential Middle East Report. Stacher has made media appearances and written commentary for NPR, CNN, BBC, Al-Jazeera, Foreign Affairs, Jadal...
Former Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center and Associate Professor of History, University of Virginia