Yahya Sadowski is an Arizona-based consultant for PFC Energy.

Modjtaba Sadria teaches in the Faculty of Policy Studies at Chuo University, Tokyo.

Hicham Safieddine is an assistant professor in the History of the Modern Middle East at King's College, University of London and the author of Banking on the State: The Financial Foundations of Lebanon (Stanford University Press, 2019).

Morad Saghafi is editor of Goft-o-Gu, a journal of research and opinion published in Tehran.

Atef Said is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Naomi Sakr is the author of Walls of Silence: Media and Censorship in Syria, published in 1998 by ARTICLE 19.

Ghassan Salameh is a Rockefeller Fellow and is writing about US policy in Lebanon. His article also appears in Le Monde Diplomatique.

Richard Sale is a veteran intelligence reporter.

Yassmine Saleh lives in al-Bira in the West Bank. She was a youth activist in the campaign to end the Palestinian political split of 2007 and around the issue of national representation in the Palestinian Liberation Organization.

Heba Saleh is a freelance journalist who has covered Algeria since 1993.

Djavad Salehi-Isfahani is a former MERIP Board Member, and is a professor of economics at Virginia Tech University.

Zekeria Ould Ahmed Salem is associate professor of political science at Northwestern University and director of the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa.

Paul Salem, associate professor of political studies at American University of Beirut, is director of the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies in Beirut and president of the Lebanese Association for the Democracy of Elections.

Akram Salhab is a Palestinian organizer and writer from Jerusalem (al-Quds) and PhD student at Queen Mary University of London.

Zakia Salime is associate professor in the departments of sociology and of women’s, gender and sexuality studies at Rutgers University.

Hesham Sallam is a research scholar at Stanford's Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL), where he serves as the associate director for research.

Bassel Salloukh teaches political science at the American University in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates.

Lana Salman is a doctoral candidate in city and regional planning at the University of California-Berkeley.

Nisreen Salti is assistant professor of economics at the American University of Beirut.

Rasha Salti is an independent curator, a freelance writer and the director of CinemaEast Film Festival.

Yunas Samad is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Bradford, UK.

Said Samlali is a doctoral candidate in geography at the Mohammed V University in Rabat and the president of the Association Ighil for the Development of Mountainous Populations.