Scholars
Interpreter for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in Gaza
Raghda has previously worked as a translator for the Middle East Office of the United Nations Office for Projects’ Services (UNOPS). She has also worked as a British Council liaison to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, working on various projects such as “Strengthening Health Management” and “Hospital Sector Planning and Management.”Raghda is interested in learning more about democratization, pe...
Former Correspondent in Vienna for Agence France-Presse News Agency
An American who has worked for Agence France-Presse news agency since 1980 with postings in Paris, Bangkok, Kuwait, Sarajevo, Bonn, Berlin and Vienna. He covered the uprising in Burma in 1988, the reconstruction of Kuwait after the first Gulf War, the war in Bosnia, the moving of the German capital from Bonn to Berlin and the fall of Mobutu in Zaire. He is currently a Public Policy Scholar at the...
Senior Fellow, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim Christian Understanding, Georgetown University
My focus on women, gender, and feminisms in Islam and Muslim societies for more than three decades has combined teaching and scholarship, public intellectual work, consulting, and activism. For even longer I have been a feminist. I have lived, contributed, and studied feminisms in many locations. For many this would raise questions of belonging—of positioning as insider or outsider and attendant e...
Professor of History at the University of Arizona, Tucson
Clancy-Smith spent 2009-2010 at the Institute for Advanced Study, School of Social Science, in Princeton.She contributed a pamphlet and book chapter to the AHA series in women, gender, and comparative history: Exemplary Women and Sacred Journeys: Women and Gender in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam from Late Antiquity to the Eve of Modernity (American Historical Association/University of Illinois...
Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
Professor Adeed Dawisha specializes in Iraq's transition to democracy since the downfall of Saddam Hussein's government in 2003.
Former Advisor to Republican and Democratic Secretaries of State on Arab-Israeli negotiations, 1978-2003.
Aaron David Miller became a Public Policy Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in January 2006, where he wrote his fourth book: The Much Too Promised Land: America's Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace, Bantam, 2008. His other books include The Arab States and the Palestine Question: Between Ideology and Self Interest, The PLO and the politics of Survival, and The Searc...
Freelance journalist; author of Passion for Islam; and former reporter, The Washington Post
An independent, freelance journalist, Caryle Murphy was a long-time reporter for the Washington Post, covering both domestic and international affairs for the paper. She also is the author of Passion for Islam (Scribner 2002), which explains Islam’s contemporary revival and the roots of religious extremism in the Middle East.From 2008-2011 she worked in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where she reported for...
Washington Post, retired
David B. Ottaway received a BA from Harvard, magna cum laude, in 1962 and a PhD from Columbia University in 1972. He worked 35 years for The Washington Post as a foreign correspondent in the Middle East, Africa and Southern Europe and later as a national security and investigative reporter in Washington before retiring in 2006. He has won numerous awards for his reporting at home and abroad and wa...
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