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).

Philip Shehadi (1958-1991) was a Reuters correspondent based in the Middle East.

Samer Shehata is assistant professor of Arab politics at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University.

Mahsa Shekarloo is a founding member of the Women's Cultural Center, an NGO based in Iran which aims to expand women's rights and social participation.  She also maintains the website Badjens, which addresses contemporary women's and gender issues in Iran.

Annelle Sheline is doctoral candidate in political science at George Washington University.

Toby Shelley is the author of Endgame in the Western Sahara: What Future for Africa's Last Colony (Zed Books, London).

Virginia Sherry, associate director of Humans Rights Watch/Middle East, is the author of An Alliance Beyond the Law: Enforced Disappearances in Lebanon (Humans Rights Watch, May 1997).

Sarah Shields is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina.

Ibrahim K. Shikaki teaches economics at Trinity College.

Ella Shohat teaches cinema and cultural studies at CUNY. SHe is the author of Israeli CinemaL East/West and the Politics of Representation (Texas University Press, 1989).

Ahmad Shokr is a doctoral candidate in Middle East history at New York University and an editor at Egypt Independent.

Mohamed Sid-Ahmed was a long-serving contributing editor of this magazine, an Egyptian activist and political writer. Sid-Ahmed also wrote four books, only one of which, After the Guns Fall Silent (1976), has been translated into English.

Micah Sifry is assistant editor of The Nation magazine.

Christopher Silver is the Segal Family Assistant Professor in Jewish History and Culture at McGill University

Shayna Silverstein received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in ethnomusicology.

Paul Silverstein is professor of anthropology at Reed College and chair of MERIP's board of directors.

Charles Simpson is a researcher at the Boston Consortium for Arab Region Studies, specializing in resilient cities.

Christian Sinclair is assistant director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Arizona.

Diane Singerman is associate professor of government at American University.