Kareem Rabie is collegiate assistant professor in the social sciences and Harper-Schmidt Fellow at the University of Chicago.

Saad Rahim is a country strategy analyst at PFC Energy in Washington.

Rend Rahim Francke is the director of the Iraq Foundation in Washington, DC.

Oula Ramadan is the founder and director of Badael with over 14 years of work experience in the fields of human rights, peacebuilding and sexual and gender-based violence.

Aziz Rana is assistant professor of law at Cornell Law School and author of The Two Faces of American Freedom (Harvard).

Glen Rangwala is a lecturer in politics at Cambridge University.

Peri Raouf is an Iraqi entrepreneur and consultant doing business in Iraq and surrounding countries.

Ahmed Rashid writes from Pakistan on the Middle East and South Asia for The Independent, Far Eastern Economic Review and other publications.

Jamal Rashid writes from Pakistan on the Middle East and South Asia for the Financial Times, Far Eastern Economic Review and other publications.

Safa Rawashdeh holds an MS in Spatial Planning from the School of Architecture and Built Environment at the German-Jordanian University in Amman.

Omar Razzaz teaches at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Danny Reachard holds a doctorate in sociology from American University in Washington, DC.

Ali Reda, a pen name, is a Lebanese activist and writer.

Eric Reeves is professor of English at Smith College in Massachusetts.  He has written extensively on Sudan for the last 11 years.

James A. Reilly teaches history in the department of Middle East and Islamic Studies at the University of Toronto.

Michael Renner is a Senior Researcher at the Worldwide Institute, Washington, DC.

Anna Simone Reumert is a PhD candidate in anthropology at Columbia University.

Nancy Reynolds is an associate professor of history at Washington University in St. Louis.

Ali Rezaei is a social researcher currently completing doctoral work at the University of Calgary. He has been involved with the reformist press in Iran for the last six years.

Khodadad Rezakhani is Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Department of Iranian Studies of the Free University of Berlin.

Djene Rhys Bajalan is assistant professor of history at Missouri State University.