Yousef K. Baker is assistant professor of international studies and co-director of the Middle East Studies program at California State University, Long Beach.

Utku Balaban teaches in the department of anthropology and sociology at Amherst College. He is a MESA Global Academy Fellow for the academic years 2020–2021 and 2021–2022.

Shiva Balaghi is an editor of the Middle East Report.

Aslı Bâli is assistant professor of law at the UCLA School of Law.

Evren Balta-Paker is a professor of political science at Yildiz Technical University in Istanbul, Turkey.

Andre Bank is based at the Center for Conflict Studies of Philipps University in Marburg, Germany.

Ali Banuazizi teaches social psychology and modern Iranian history at Boston College.

Lynne Barbee is an editor of this magazine and works at Georgetown University's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies.

David Barchard was the Ankara-based correspondent for the BBC and the Guardian.

Ann Barhoum is the president of Najda: Women Concerned about the Middle East.

Jessica Barnes is associate professor of geography at the University of South Carolina.

Amélie Barras is a visiting lecturer at the Graduate Institute of International Relations in Geneva.

Gad Barzilai is professor of international studies, law, and political science at the University of Washington.

Burak Başaranlar received his PhD from the history department at Binghamton University.

Hanna Batatu is author of The Old Social Classes and Revolutionary Movements of Iraq (Princeton, 1978).

Hayden Bates is an Arab studies and public health major at Davidson College.

Habib Battah is an independent journalist and founder of BeirutReport.com. He teaches Global Studies at St. Lawrence University in New York. Find him on X @habib_b.

Janet Bauer teaches anthropology and international studies at Trinity College at Hartford, CT.

Joel Bauman is a doctoral candidate in anthropology at the New School for Social Research.

Melissa Baumann, a freelance journalist, spent early 1988 in the Occupied Territories on a trip sponsored by Grassroots International.

Kaveh Bayat is an independent researcher working in Iran.

Asef Bayat, a contributing editor of Middle East Report, teaches sociology at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana.

Moustafa Bayoumi is professor of English at Brooklyn College and author of How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America (Penguin, 2008).

Lois Beck is a professor of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis.