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...
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...
Associate Professor of Middle Eastern History, University of Virginia and Senior J.R. Fellow, U.S. Institute of Peace (2007-08)
I am a specialist in 20th-century Middle Eastern history, with a broad interest in how foreign inter¬vention has influenced political development there. My first book, Colonial Citizens, examined France's experiment in building constitutional republics in Syria and Lebanon under conditions of foreign occupation, the political institutions and rights of citizenship forged under the peculiar con...
Journalist and Author/Editor of eight books, most recently editor of "The Islamists Are Coming: Who They Really Are"
Robin Wright is a journalist, author and foreign policy analyst. She is currently a USIP Senior Fellow-Wilson Center Distinguished Scholar.
Her projects explore new trends in the Islamic world--the Arab revolts, the rise of political Islam and the counter-jihad against extremism. She also identifies issues that will define the next decade, when the Middle East’s transformation will be a maj...
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...
Robin Wright is a journalist, author and foreign policy analyst. She is currently a USIP Senior Fellow-Wilson Center Distinguished Scholar. Her projects explore new trends in the Islamic world--the Arab revolts, the rise of political Islam and the counter-jihad against extremism. She also identifies issues that will define the next decade, when the Middle East’s transformation will be a maj...