Neslihan Sen is a doctoral candidate in anthropology at the University of Illinois-Chicago.

Thomas Serres is an assistant professor of politics at UC Santa Cruz. Prior, he was a lecturer in the politics department at University of California, Santa Cruz and a specialist of North Africa. The manuscript of his first book is entitled “The Suspended Disaster: Governance by Catastrophization in Bouteflika’s Algeria.” He also co-edited “North Africa and the Making of Europe: Governance, Institutions and Culture” (London: Bloomsbury, 2018).

John Sfakianakis is a research fellow at Harvard University, Center for Middle Eastern Studies.

Nada Shabout, an editor of this magazine, is associate professor of art history and art education at the University of North Texas.

Anthony Shadid is a Middle East correspondent for the New York Times.

Roschanack Shaery is a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen. This article is drawn from her forthcoming book, Lebanese Detainees in Syria: Transnationalism, Piety and Suffering.

Elif Shafak is an award-winning Turkish novelist. Her latest novel in English is The Saint of Incipient Insanities (2005).

Gershon Shafir is professor of sociology at the University of California-San Diego, past president of the Israel Studies Association and author of A Half Century of Occupation: Israel, Palestine and the World’s Most Intractable Conflict (California, 2017).

Meera Shah is the former media coordinator for MERIP.

M. Nazif Shahrani is professor of anthropology and Central Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Indiana in Bloomington.

Nazanin Shahrokni is assistant professor of Gender and Globalisation at the London School of Economics and Political Science and the author of Women in Place: The Politics of Gender Segregation in Iran (Oakland: University of California Press, 2020).

Nadeen Shaker holds an M.A. from the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University.

Sima Shakhsari teaches at the University of Minnesota and is the author of Politics of Rightful Killing: Civil Society, Gender, and Sexuality in Weblogistan (Duke, 2020).

Michael Shalev teaches in the department of sociology and department of political science at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Stephen R. Shalom is professor of political science at William Paterson University in Wayne, NJ and a member of the editorial board of New Politics.

Simona Sharoni, assistant professor of peace and conflict resolution at American University, is author of Gender and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Politics of Women’s Resistance (Syracuse University Press, 1995).

Deen Sharp is an LSE Fellow in Human Geography in the department of geography and environment at the London School of Economics.

Adam Shatz writes for the London Review of Books.

Lara Sheehi is a licensed clinical psychologist and faculty member at the George Washington University. She is currently co-authoring a book with Stephen Sheehi, Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Theory and Practice in Palestine (Routledge). Lara is on the advisory board to the USA-Palestine Mental Health Network and to Psychoanalysis for Pride.

Stephen Sheehi is a professor at the American University of Beirut. He will be an associate professor of Arab studies at the University of South Carolina in the fall.

David Sheen is an investigative journalist who has been reporting from Israel and Palestine for the past decade.

Dr. Alaa Shehabi works at University College London and is a British-Bahraini researcher and a co-founder of Bahrain Watch.

Lama is an architect and urban planner who graduated from Cornell University. She currently works in planning for '48 Palestinian towns.

Raja Shehadeh, a West Bank lawyer and co-founder of al-Haq, the pioneer Palestinian human rights organization, was a legal adviser to the Palestinian negotiating team in Washington, DC. He is the author of The Sealed Room: Selections from the Diary of a Palestinian Living under Israeli Occupation, September 1990-August 1991 (London: Quartet, 1992).