Susanne Dahlgren teaches at Tampere University and is visiting scholar at the Middle East Institute in the National University of Singapore.

Jamil Dakwar is a staff attorney at Adalah, a leading Palestinian human rights organization in Israel.

Leena Dallasheh is an assistant professor of History at Humboldt State University. Her research focuses on Palestinian history in the transition between the British Mandate and Israeli rule.

John Damis was director of Middle East studies at Portland State University.

Tariq Dana is associate professor of Conflict and Humanitarian Studies at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar.

Edward Danforth teaches politics at Cochise College and is an Associate Member of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Arizona.

Nick Danforth is a doctoral candidate in history at Georgetown University. He writes about Middle East maps, history and politics at midafternoonmap.com.

Suheir Abu Oksa Daoud is assistant professor of politics at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina.

Walid Daqqah is a Palestinian political prisoner, writer and activist.

Mahmoud Darwish is the author of many collections of poetry and was considered Palestine's most eminent poet.

Efraim Davidi is a freelance journalist in Israel.

Asher Davidi is the labor correspondent for the Israeli daily Davar.

Basil Davidson has written more than 20 books on African political and social history.

Christopher M. Davidson, a senior lecturer in the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University, is the author of Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success (Columbia University Press, 2008).

Hannah Davis has a PhD in anthropology from New York University.

Eric Davis is professor of political science at Rutgers University. He is author, most recently, of Memories of State: Politics, History and Collective Identity in Modern Iraq (University of California Press, 2005).

Rochelle Davis is assistant professor of anthropology at the Center of Contemporary Arab Studies in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

Muriam Haleh Davis is an assistant professor in the history department at UCSC where she teaches classes on post-colonial North Africa, Arab thought and French empire.

Zachary Davis Cuyler is a PhD candidate in History and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University.

Karen Dawisha is the author of several books and many articles on Soviet policy in the Middle East. She is currently working at Princeton University.

Will Day is a doctoral candidate in Middle Eastern studies and social anthropology at Harvard University.

Francesca de Châtel is a journalist and editor specializing in water issues in the Arab world and Mediterranean region.

Moyara de Moraes Ruehsen teaches international politics and economics at the Monterey Institute of International Studies and the University of San Francisco.

Marina de Regt is assistant professor of social and cultural anthropology at VU University Amsterdam. She specializes in gender and migration in and between Yemen and Ethiopia.