I-wei Jennifer Chang is a writer and researcher on Chinese foreign policy, Asian politics and Chinese-Middle Eastern relations.

Mounira Charrad teaches sociology at the University of Texas-Austin.

Boutheina Cheriet teaches comparative education and the sociology of education at the University of Algiers.

Fantu Cheru has been the Research Director of the Nordic Africa Institute since August 2007. He is a leading expert in African development, with field experience in more than 20 African countries.

Erskine Childers was a UN civil servant, as well as a writer and broadcaster specializing in Third World issues.

Laryssa Chomiak is director of Centre d’Etudes Maghrebines a Tunis (CEMAT).

Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, political activist, and social critic.

Alexander Christie-Miller is a Turkey-based freelance journalist who writes for the Times of London, Eurasianet and the Southeast European Times.

Alev Çınar is a postdoctoral fellow at the International Center for Advanced Studies at New York University.

Christina Civantos is associate professor in the department of modern languages and literatures at the University of Miami (Florida).

Ümit Cizre is a professor of politics focused on issues of democracy and the military in Turkey.

Janine A. Clark teaches political science at the University of Guelph in Canada.

Killian Clarke is a doctoral candidate in politics at Princeton University.

Andy Clarno is associate professor of sociology and Black studies at the University of Illinois-Chicago.

Patrick Clawson taught economics at Seton Hall University.

Jean-François Clement teaches philosophy in Nancy, France.

Helena Cobban is the author of The PLO: People, Power, Politics and is completing a new book on Lebanon.

Stanley Cohen is a professor of criminology at Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

Stu Cohen was foreign affairs staff writer for the Boston Phoenix from 1976-1979.

Juan Cole is professor of Middle Eastern and South Asian history at the University of Michigan.  He maintains a blog on the Middle East at www.juancole.com.

Jack Colhoun, a Washington-based reporter, was Washington correspondent for the Guardian newsweekly from 1980 to 1992.