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.

Azar Tabari is author of a dissertation on land reform in Iran.

Mariz Tadros is a fellow at the Institute of Development Studies of the University of Sussex in Great Britain.

Jock Taft does independent research on Middle East history. He is active in the Committee for Academic Freedom in the Occupied Territories (CAFIOT), based in Berkeley.

Dalia Taha is a Palestinian poet and playwright.

Mona Tajali is a visiting scholar at Stanford University's Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law.

R. Shareah Taleghani is assistant professor of Middle East studies and Arabic at Queens College.

Salim Tamari is director of the Institute for Jerusalem Studies and a contributing editor of this magazine.

Steve Tamari is professor of Middle East history at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville.

Lucine Taminian is a senior researcher in residence at The American Academic Research Institute in Iraq, based in Amman, Jordan. She has written and edited numerous books on her research in Lebanon, Jordan and Yemen. She also is on the editorial board for the Jordanian magazine al-Mastoor that is dedicated to the issued of poverty.

Bakary Tandia works for the Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in Mauritania.

Osama Tanous is a pediatrician based in Haifa and a public health scholar. He is currently a Fulbright Humphrey fellow in the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, Atlanta.

Michael Tanzer is a consultant with Tanzer Economic Associates in New York.

Bashar Tarabieh, was is from Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights, attended Hebrew University and was active in the Golan Heights Academic Association. He currently works as a consultant and translator in Washington, DC.

Lisa Taraki is a sociologist at Birzeit University in the West Bank.

Monica Tarazi holds a J.D. from the UCLA School of Law and an M.A. in Arab studies from Georgetown University.

Alaa Tartir is program director of Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network, a post-doctoral fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, and a visiting research fellow at the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.

Yuksel Taskin is associate professor of politics at Marmara University in Istanbul.

Sami Tayeb is an independent researcher based in Washington DC who focuses on the political economy of urban development in the Middle East.