Heba Morayef is an Egyptian human rights defender based in Cairo. She has worked for Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International.

Chana Morgenstern is university lecturer in postcolonial and Middle East literatures at the University of Cambridge.

Robert Mortimer teaches political science at Haverford College in Pennsylvania.

Norma Claire Moruzzi is associate professor of political science and gender and women’s studies and director of the international studies program at the University of Illinois-Chicago.

Negar Mottahedeh teaches in the Program on Literature at Duke University.

Fouad Moughrabi teaches political science at the University of Tennessee at Chattanoga. He has designed and conducted polls with Gallup and the Survey and Research Center at the University of Michigan.

Tamir Moustafa is assistant professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Hisham Mubarak is director of the Center for Human Rights Legal Aid in Cairo.

Ali Mudara is an Iranian social scientist working in the West.

Mahmoud Muna known to many as The Bookseller of Jerusalem; when he is not reading and selling books, he writes on culture, languages, and identity.

Samuel Munayer is currently pursuing a master’s degree at the University of Exeter's Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies.

Jacob Mundy is an associate professor at Colgate University and was a Fulbright Scholar with the Université de Tunis in 2018–2019. He is the author of Imaginative Geographies of Algerian Violence (Stanford University Press, 2015) and Libya (Polity Press, 2018).

Daud Munir is a doctoral candidate in politics at Princeton University.

Emma Murphy is a scholar affiliated with the Center for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies in Durham, England.

Tahani Mustafa is an assistant professor at Mutah University, Jordan.

Musindo Mwinyipembe is a nationally syndicated radio commentator on African affairs for “In the Public Interest,” and coproducer of the film Blacks Britannica.

Cynthia Myntti is a professor at the American University of Beirut.

Issam Naaman is a lawyer and political writer in Lebanon. He was a member of Lebanon's political and administrative reform committees in 1985-86, and served in parliament from 1992-96 as secretary of the parliamentary committee for legislation and administration.

Haneen Naamneh is senior editor and director of the independent Iraqi media platform, Jummar.

Hamid Naficy is a professor of communications at Northwestern University. He has produced many films and is an expert on television and film in the Middle East.

Richa Nagar teaches women's studies and geography at the University of Minnesota.