Andrea Wright is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Program in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at William & Mary. Using archival and ethnographic research methods in India, the Gulf and the United Kingdom, her current projects explore migration from India to the oilfields of the Arabic-speaking Gulf and the connections between energy, governance and labor.

Anna Wuerth is a researcher at Das Deutsche Institut fur Menschenrechte in Berlin.

Anna Wurth is a PhD candidate in the department of Islamic Studies at the Free University of Berlin.

Lisa Wynn is a PhD candidate in the department of anthropology at Princeton University.

Stacey Philbrick Yadav is associate professor of international relations at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York.

Altan Yalpat is a social scientist from Turkey.

Yavuz Yaşar is associate professor of economics at the University of Denver.

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.

Umut Yıldırım is an assistant professor of anthropology at the Geneva Graduate Institute.

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.