Uri Avnery is head of Gush Shalom in Israel.

Sara Awartani is a doctoral candidate in American studies at George Washington University.

Bilgin Ayata is a doctoral candidate in political science at the Johns Hopkins University.

Cemil Aydin is associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and an editor of Middle East Report.

Aslı Aydıntaşbaş is a Turkish journalist who is working as a foreign correspondent while completing graduate studies at New York University.

Habib Ayeb is associate professor of geography at Université Paris 8.

Gamal 'Abdel 'Aziz, a lawyer specializing in human rights and labor cases, has served as a consultant to several local and international NGOs working on democracy projects in Egypt. He ran as an independent canididate in April 1997 local elections in Dar al-Salam.

Kiren Aziz Chaudhry is a professor of political science at the University of California in Berkeley.

Rivka Azoulay is a doctoral candidate in politics at Sciences Po Paris.

Zeina Azzam Seikaly is director of Educational Outreach at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University.

Elif Babül is associate professor of anthropology at Mount Holyoke College. Her publications include Bureaucratic Intimacies: Translating Human Rights in Turkey (Stanford University Press, 2017).

Ralf Bäcker is program coordinator for Medico International in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Omar Baddar is the Deputy Director of the Arab American Institute, and a political analyst on US-Middle East policy.

Laetitia Bader is Somalia researcher for Human Rights Watch.

Shawna Bader-Blau is senior program officer in the Middle East North African Department at the Solidarity Center.

Cecilia Baeza is lecturer at the Getulio Vargas Foundation in São Paulo, Brazil. She is co-founder of RIMAAL, a network of researchers on the links between Latin America and the Middle East. She holds a doctorate in international relations from Sciences Po-Paris.

Beeta Baghoolizadeh is an assistant professor of history and Africana studies at Bucknell University and serves as the resident historian for the Collective for Black Iranians.

Bishara Bahbah is author of Israel and Latin America: The Military Connection (St. Martin’s, 1986).

Hossam Bahgat is an Egyptian human rights activist.

Sam Bahour is a Palestinian business management consultant living in Ramallah.

Sha'banali Bahrampour is a sociologist at Tehran's Center for Media Studies and Research.

Kristian Davis Bailey is a writer, activist and co-founder of Black for Palestine.

Narges Bajoghli is a doctoral candidate in anthropology at New York University.