James Spencer is a London-based independent consultant specializing in the political and security issues of the Middle East.

Allison Spencer Hartnett is a post-doctoral associate at the Leitner Program on International and Comparative Political Economy at Yale University.

Robert Springborg is a professor in the Department of National Security Affairs of the Naval Postgraduate School and Program Manager for the Middle East for the Center for Civil-Military Relations.

Annabelle Sreberny is professor of global media and communications at the University of London-SOAS.

Joshua Stacher is associate professor of political science at Kent State University and an editor of Middle East Report. He is author of Adaptable Autocrats: Regime Power in Egypt and Syria (Stanford, 2012).

Georg Stauth teaches sociology at the National University of Singapore.

Jonathan Steele is the chief foreign correspondent for The Guardian (London).

Ulrike Stehli holds a doctorate in modern Syrian literature from the University of Münster in Germany.

Ewan Stein is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study of the Arab World, University of Edinburgh.

Jamie Stern-Weiner is an independent researcher. He co-edits New Left Project.

Matthew R. Stevens is completing his masters in geography through York University’s Centre for Refugee Studies.

Thomas Stevenson teaches anthropology on Ohio University’s regional campus. He is author of Social Change in a Yemeni Highlands Town (Utah, 1981).

Martin Stokes is King Edward Professor of Music at King’s College, University of London.

Anya Stone is a researcher and writer with the International Women's Network in Jerusalem.

Joe Stork was the editor of Middle East Report until 1995 and deputy director of Human Rights Watch's Middle East and North Africa division from 1995 to 2017. He is currently chair of the advisory board of the Gulf Center for Human Rights.

Sandy Sufian is an assistant professor of medical humanities and history at the University of Illinois- Chicago and the founder of the Global Network of Researchers on HIV/AIDS in the Middle East and North Africa. She is the author of Healing the Land and the Nation: Malaria and the Zionist Project in Mandatory Palestine.

Mayssun Sukarieh is a teacher in Beirut.

Denis Sullivan is professor of political science at Northeastern University and director of the Boston Consortium for Arab Region Studies.

Gary Sussman is based at Tel Aviv University.

Jon C. Swanson lived for six years in Yemen studying rural society and migration, and for eight years in the Arab community of Dearborn, MI.

Will Swearingen is assistant professor of geography at Colgate University and author of Moroccan Mirages: Agrarian Dreams and Deceptions, 1912·1986 (Prince· ton University Press, 1987).

Ted Swedenburg, a contributing editor of this magazine, teaches anthropology at the University of Arkansas.

Catherine Sweet holds a Ph.D. in political science from UCLA.