Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak is professor of Persian language and literature at the University of Maryland.

Ramin Karimian is a researcher and a translator working in the field of sociology.

E.J. Karmel is a PhD student in political science at the University of Guelph.

Omar Karmi is a correspondant for the Jordan Times and managing editor of the Palestine Report.

Seelai Karzai is an MFA candidate at the University of Oregon.

Resat Kasaba is a professor of international studies at University of Washington.

Leili Kashani is a freelance editor and writer. She is a former senior editor at the Arab Studies Journal and a former advocacy program manager at the Center for Constitutional Rights. The opinions expressed here are her own. You can follow her @caspianblues.

Selma Kasmi is a translator, journalist and feminist activist. She began her career as an online journalist in Algeria, and now covers North Africa and the Sahel for a number of international media outlets and press agencies. Her areas of specialization include the geopolitics of security and energy in the region, movements of populations, the political economy of conflicts, the rights of women and minorities and the social dynamics within working class neighborhoods.

Sumayya Kassamali is assistant professor in anthropology and the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto.

Samir Kassir (May 1960 – 2 June 2005) was a Lebanese-French professor of history at Saint-Joseph University and journalist.

Mudar Kassis is assistant professor of philosophy and cultural studies at Bir Zeit University and a senior researcher at the Center for Palestine Research and Studies in Nablus. He serves on the board of directors of the Jerusalem Center for Human Rights.

Olivia Katbi Smith is co-chair of the Portland chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America.

Leila Katibah is a recent graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she researched the connections between surveillance, settler-colonialism and press freedom.

David Katz is project coordinator for Friends of the Earth-Middle East.

Cindi Katz is completing a book on children and environment in rural Sudan.

Adah Kay is honorary professor at the Cass Business School, City University, London.

Ebru Kayaalp is an assistant professor on the communications faculty at Istanbul Sehir University.

Nihal Kayali is a PhD candidate in sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Özlem Kayhan Pusane is associate professor of international relations at Işık University in Istanbul.

Mariz Kelada is a Cairene cultural worker, a PhD candidate in anthropology and an MA student at the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University.

Reem Kelani, a Palestinian musician and singer residing in London, currently works for BBC World Service.

Vicky Kelberer is an M.A. candidate in international affairs at the Pardee School at Boston University. She traveled to Jordan as a Boston Consortium for Arab Region Studies graduate fellow in June 2015.