Ali Yaycıoğlu is associate professor of Ottoman and Middle East history at Stanford University.

Oren Yiftachel is professor of geography at Ben Gurion University in Beersheva, Israel, and a contributing editor of Middle East Report.

Guney Yildiz is a visiting fellow at the Centre for Applied Studies (CATS) at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) and a PhD student at Cambridge University.

Ergin Yildizoğlu lives in London and edits a monthly newsletter on Turkey.

Sean L. Yom is associate professor of political science at Temple University.

Benaiah Yongo-Bure is a professor of social studies at Kettering University.

William Lafi Youmans is assistant professor of media and public affairs at George Washington University.

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.

Zeina Zaatari researches sexual rights movements and sexuality in Lebanon and the Middle East and she directs the Arab American Cultural Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Lizabeth Zack is a Professor of Sociology at the University of South Carolina Upstate. She teaches and publishes on social movements, the cultural dimensions of protest, and environmental activism in the Middle East.

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

Zachariah Zahid is a Strategy Analyst based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He received his B.A. from the University of Exeter’s Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies.

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.

Sami Zemni is professor of political and social sciences at Ghent University in Belgium where he coordinates the Middle East and North Africa Research Group.

Helena Zeweri is assistant professor of Global Studies at the University of Virginia.