Ceren Lord is a Sasakawa Peace Foundation Fellow and Research Officer in Middle East Studies, the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford.

Erling Lorentzen Sogge is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oslo.

Noora Loori is an Assistant Professor at Boston University's Pardee School of Global Studies.

Miriam R. Lowi is professor of comparative and Middle East politics at The College of New Jersey and an editor of Middle East Report.

Alex Lubin is a professor of African American Studies at Penn State University.

Pierre-Jean Luizard is a researcher with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and author of La formation d l’Irak ottomane et au moment de la creation de l’etat irakien (Paris: CNRS, 1991).

Gill Lusk is deputy editor of African Confidential. She spent many years in Sudan as a journalist.

Marc Lynch is associate professor of political science at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University.

Charlotte Lysa is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo.

Michael M.J. Fischer teaches anthropology at Rice University in Houston, Texas.

Haiyun Ma is assistant professor of history at Frostburg State University in Maryland.

Moshé Machover is an Israeli socialist, founding member of Matzpen, the Socialist Organization in Israel. He teaches mathematical logic at London University.

Abdeslam Maghraoui is a visiting fellow at the Center for International Studies, Princeton University.

Nidhi Mahajan is an assistant professor in anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz and Fatima Mernissi Postdoctoral Fellow in Social and Cultural Studies at The Africa Institute, Sharjah, UAE.

Sohrab Mahdavi is co-founder and editor of TehranAvenue.com.

Saba Mahmood is an associate professor of anthropology at University of California, Berkeley.

Callie Maidhof is a doctoral candidate in anthropology at the University of California-Berkeley.

Ussama Makdisi is professor of Middle East history at University of California-Berkeley.

Karim Makdisi is associate professor of political studies at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon.

Saree Makdisi is assistant professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago.

Graciela Malgesini is a coordinator with the Centro de Investigacion para la Paz in Madrid, specializing in economics and social studies.

Mohammad Maljoo is a Tehran-based independent researcher.

Noga Malkin is an M.A. candidate in the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University. She has previously worked on refugee and human rights issues for UNHCR and Human Rights Watch.