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

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

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.

Chibli Mallat is a professor of Middle Eastern law and politics at the S.J. Quinney College of Law at University of Utah.

Linda A. Malone is Director of the Human Security Law Program at William and Mary Law School in Williamsburg, Virginia. She is the author of two law review articles on the Sabra and Shatila massacres.

Rebecca Manski is a writer based in Brooklyn. From 2003 to 2008, she worked as a communications consultant for NGOs in Israel-Palestine.

Renad Mansour is a senior research fellow at Chatham House, London.

Imad Mansour is faculty lecturer in the Department of Political Science at McGill University.

Aliza Marcus is a journalist who frequently writes on Turkey.

Michael Marcusa is a doctoral candidate in political science at Brown University.

Ronnie Margulies lives in London and co-edits a monthly newsletter on Turkey.

Shana Marshall is associate director of the Institute for Middle East Studies and assistant research professor at The George Washington University.

Jonathan Marshall is author of Drug Wars: Corruption, Counterinsurgency and Covert Operations in the Third World (1991).

Jose Ciro Martinez is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge.

Nadia Marzouki is a tenured research fellow in political science at CNRS-Sciences Po in Paris.

Mazen Masri is lecturer in law at the City Law School of City University, London.

Shalini Mathur is a women's rights activist associated with Suraksha, an anti-dowry organization in Lucknow, India.

Kamran Matin is associate professor of international relations at Sussex University.

Afshin Matin-Asgari is professor of Middle East history and religious studies at California State University-Los Angeles.

Khaled Mattawa is the William Wilhartz Endowed Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan, where he directs the Arab and Muslim American Studies Program and is the editor-in-chief of Michigan Quarterly Review. He was born in Benghazi, Libya in 1964 and immigrated to the United States in his teens. He is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently, Fugitive Atlas (Graywolf Press, 2020), as well as a critical study, Mahmoud Darwish: The Poet's Art and His Nation (Syracuse University Press, 2014).

Vivienne Matthies-Boon is assistant professor of international relations of the Middle East at the University of Amsterdam.