Dana El Kurd is assistant professor at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies and a researcher at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies.

Aly El Raggal is a political sociologist based in Cairo.

Zein El-Amine’s poems have been published in Wild River Review, Folio, Foreign Policy in Focus, Beltway Quarterly, DC Poets Against the War Anthology, Penumbra, GYST and Joybringer.

Rayan El-Amine is Assistant Director at the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut.

Bilal El-Amine is editor of Left Turn and anti-war activist in New York.

Fouzi El-Asmar is author of To Be an Arab in Israel.

Karim El-Gawhary is a journalist based in Cairo.

Krista Masonis El-Gawhary is a consultant for the German Green Party's Heinrich Boell Foundation, Save the Children/USA and GTZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit).

Mona El-Ghobashy is a clinical assistant professor in Liberal Studies at New York University.

Hossam El-Hamalawy is a Cairo-based journalist and blogger.

Abdallah el-Hassan recently finished his doctorate from the School of Development Studies of the University of East Anglia.

Elia El-Khazen is an organizer and a researcher at Disrupt Power and the Global Energy Embargo for Palestine.

Asya El-Meehy is officer of governance and public administration at United Nations-ESCWA. This article is based on fieldwork in the Basatin and Heliopolis neighborhoods of Cairo, as well as the towns of Kafr al-Sheikh and Qina. Funding for research was provided by Arizona State University’s New College, where the author previously served as assistant professor of comparative politics. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the official positions of ESCWA.

Thoraya El-Rayyes is a Research Affiliate at Columbia University’s Global Center in Amman, Jordan.

Khaled el-Rouayheb is assistant professor of Islamic intellectual history at Harvard University.

Maryam Elahi is program officer on the Middle East, North Africa and Europe at Amnesty International in Washington, DC.

Nisrin Elamin is an assistant professor at the University of Toronto.

Mikhael Elbaz teaches anthropology at Laval University in Quebec.

Nada Elfeituri is an architect and writer from Benghazi, Libya who works on urban development and community engagement.

Nada Elia is scholar-in-residence in the Afro-American studies program at Brown University.

Rasmus Christian Elling is a Ph.D. fellow at the University of Copenhagen.

Nur Elmessiri, assistant professor of comparative literature at the American University in Cairo, is coeditor of A Land of Stone and Thyme: An Anthology of Palestinian Short Stories, (London: Quartet, 1996).

Sharif Elmusa is associate professor of political science at the American University in Cairo, currently visiting at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service-Qatar.