Kevin Begos reported from Iraq for the Christian Science Monitor and the Winston-Salem Journal

Shiko Behar is director of the Alternative Information Center, a joint Palestinian-Israeli organization based in Jerusalem and Beit Sahour.

Laleh Behbehanian is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University of California-Berkeley.

Sohrab Behdad is professor of economics at Denison University in Ohio.

Dr. Orkideh Behrouzan is a senior lecture in anthropology at SOAS University of London.

Kenan Behzat Sharpe has a PhD in literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz and lives in Istanbul, where he teaches and is an arts/culture columnist for the independent Duvar English.

Joel Beinin is Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and professor of Middle East History, Emeritus at Stanford University and a contributing editor of Middle East Report.

Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi is the author of Original Sins (Pluto, 1992) and of Despair and Deliverance (SUNY Press, 1992).

Naoual Belakhdar is a political scientist affiliated with the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Politics, Otto-Suhr Institute for Political Sciences at Freie Universität Berlin.

Jennifer Bell holds a doctorate in political science from New York University.

Nimrod Ben Zeev is a fellow at the Polonsky Academy for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.

Naor Ben-Yehoyada is visiting lecturer in the Department of Anthropology and post-doctoral visiting research fellow at the Center for Middle East Studies at Harvard University.

Yael Ben-zvi is in the modern thought and literature program at Stanford University.

Karima Benabdallah-Gambier is a doctoral student at the University of Louvain la Neuve in Belgium.

Clarisa Bencomo is Human Rights Watch's children's rights researcher for the Middle East and North Africa and author of Adults Before Their Time: Children in Saudi Arabia's Criminal Justice System (March 2008).

Phyllis Bennis is the new internationalism fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies.

Mahfoud Bennoune (1936-2004) was a long-time contributing editor and author of numerous books and articles on North Africa.

John Berger is an art critic and novelist. His critical works include The Success and Failure of Picasso, Ways of Seeing and Art and Revolution.

Nitza Berkovitch is assistant professor of sociology at Ben Gurion University in Israel.

Victoria Bernal is associate professor anthropology at the University of California, Irvine.

Arbella Bet-Shlimon is an assistant professor of history at the University of Washington, Seattle, specializing in the modern history of Iraq.

Ahmad Beydoun is a Lebanese historian, writer and lexicographer.

Lisa Bhungalia is an Assistant Professor of Geography at Kent State University.