Kevin L. Schwartz is Deputy Director of the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, Czech Republic, where he also serves as a research fellow.

Jillian Schwedler is professor of politics at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Jillian has been a member of MERIP’s editorial committee and board of directors.

David Seddon teaches at the University of East Anglia and was a contributing editor of this magazine.

Paul Sedra is associate professor of history at Simon Fraser University and Middle East editor of History Compass.

Nicholas Seeley is a freelance writer based in Amman.

Lynne Segal is anniversary professor of psychology and gender studies at Birkbeck College, London. 

Sherene Seikaly is assistant professor of history and Middle East studies at the American University in Cairo and co-editor of the Arab Studies Journal.

Charmaine Seitz is a writer based in Ramallah in the West Bank.

Jan Selby is professor of politics and international relations at the University of Sheffield.

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.