Semira N. Nikou is an attorney based on Honolulu. She was previously a law fellow with the US Mission to the World Trade Organization, and worked at the Public International Law & Policy Group and the US Institute of Peace.

Steve Niva teaches international politics and Middle East studies at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. He is the current editor of Middle East Report and MERIP publications.

Carolyn Nordstrom is professor of anthropology at the University of Notre Dame and author, most recently, of Global Outlaws (California, 2007).

Roger Normand is a co-founder and former Executive Director of the Center for Economic and Social Rights in Brooklyn, New York.

Anne Norton is a professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin.

Sateh Nourredine is managing editor of the Beirut daily newspaper As-Safir.

Vahid Nowshirvani teaches anthropology at Columbia University.

Joanne Randa Nucho is a doctoral candidate in anthropology at the University of California-Irvine.

Isis Nusair is associate professor of women’s studies and international studies at Denison University and an editor of Middle East Report.

Jay O’Brien taught at the Universities of Khartoum and Gezira and did research on agricultural development in Sudan from 1974 to 1979.

Jeannette O'Malley is a Turkey-based freelance journalist who covers Afghanistan.

Hilton Obenzinger is the author of Cannibal Eliot, or The Lost Histories of San Francisco. He is currently the Associate Director for Honors and Advanced Writing, the Hume Writing Center at Stanford University.

Lee O’Brien works in the Department of Political Affairs at the United Nations and was a contributing editor of Middle East Report.

Sana Odeh is a clinical professor of computer science at New York University.

Ronald Ofteringer works for Medico International in Iraqi Kurdistan as coordinator for Middle East programs.

Peter Ogram was an intern for Middle East Research and Information Project.

Zeynep Oguz is a postdoctoral fellow in Environmental Humanities at the Kaplan Humanities Institute and the Department of Anthropology at Northwestern University.

Anna Ohannessian-Charpin is a social anthropologist who specializes in the Bedouin people of the Middle East.

Lysandra Ohrstrom is a Beirut-based journalist.

Nnedi Okorafor is an award-winning writer of science fiction and fantasy for adults and youth.

Gwenn Okruhlik is an independent scholar of development and opposition in Saudi Arabia.

Kerem Öktem is a fellow at the European Studies Centre of St. Antony’s College at the University of Oxford.

Jennifer Olmsted is associate professor of economics at Drew University in Madison, NJ.

Zuzanna Olszewska is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Oxford.