Marilyn Young teaches history at New York University.

Michael Young is Opinion Editor for the Daily Star in Beirut.

Bassam Yousif is associate professor of economics at Indiana State University.

Lizabeth Zack is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of South Carolina Upstate.

Marie-Joëlle Zahar is associate professor of political science at the Université de Montréal.

Amy Zalman holds a doctorate in Middle Eastern studies from New York University.

Maggy Zanger, a former assistant editor of Middle East Report, is professor at the University of Arizona School of Journalism.

Dina Zayed holds a Masters in Environmental Change and Management from the University of Oxford. She is a former Cairo-based Reuters correspondent.

Nasim Zehra is a graduate student at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

Darrow Seidenstein is a lecturer in the department of anthropology at the University of Texas in Austin and is working on a book analyzing popular images of the state of Morocco and Syria.

Işik Urla Zeytinoğlu is a professor at McMaster University.

Rafeef Ziadah is lecturer in politics at SOAS, University of London.

Fatemeh Ziai is counsel at Human Rights Watch/Middle East and author of the Humans Rights Watch/Middle East report Western Sahara: Keeping it Secret, The United Nations Operation in the Western Sahara (New York, 1995).

Ann Zimmerman worked with Kurdish television stations in northern Iraq in 1992 producing health education programs.

Stephen Zorn is a consultant with Tanzer Economic Associates in New York.

Yahia H. Zoubir teaches international studies at Thunderbird, the American Graduate School of International Management, in Arizona.

Sami Zubaida, a contributing editor of this magazine, is author of Law and Power in the Islamic World (I. B. Tauris, 2003).