Graham Usher is a writer and journalist and a contributing editor of Middle East Report.

Kerem Can Uşşaklı is a PhD candidate in the anthropology at Stanford University.

Morten Valbjorn is based at the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Southern Denmark and the Department of Political Science at the University of Aarhus.

Martin van Bruinessen is assistant professor of Turkish and Kurdish studies at Utrecht University.

Dirk Vandewalle is traveling in North Africa as a fellow of the Institute for Current World Affairs.

Shouleh Vatanabadi worked as assistant to the publisher of Middle East Report.

Mostafa Vaziri was a visiting scholar at the Center of Middle East Studies at the University of California-Berkeley.

Haleh Vaziri is a political scientist based in Washington, D.C.

Persheng Vaziri is an Iranian-born documentary filmmaker who lived for 20 years in the US.  She now resides and works in Iran.

Victoria Veguilla is professor of political science at Pablo de Olavide University in Spain.

Alejandro Velasco is associate professor of modern Latin America at New York University and executive editor of North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA).

Lorenzo Veracini is associate professor in history and politics at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne.

Meriem Verges lives in Paris and finished her thesis on the urban transformation of contemporary Algeria.

Peter Verney is editor of Sudan Update, based in London.

Reidar Visser is a research fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and editor of the website www.historiae.org.

Robert Vitalis is author of America's Kingdom: Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier (Stanford, 2006).

Anita Vitullo Khoury lives in Jerusalem and writes on Palestinian development issues.

Daniel Volman is director of the African Security Research Project in Washington, DC.

Gabriele vom Bruck is senior lecturer in the social anthropology of the Middle East at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Neha Vora is an associate professor of anthropology at Lafayette College.

Taline Voskeritchian writes on film from California.

Don Wagner is professor of religion and director of the Center for Middle East Studies at North Park University in Chicago.

Bilal Wahab is a fellow at the Washington Institute of Near East Policy.

Sarah Waheed is a historian of South Asia. She has taught at Georgetown University, George Mason University and Mount Holyoke College. She lives and works in Washington, DC.