Paul Silverstein is professor of anthropology at Reed College. He is the author of Algeria in France: Transpolitics, Race, and Nation (Indiana University Press, 2004), Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North Africa, edited with Ussama Makdisi (Indiana University Press, 2006) and Postcolonial France: Race, Islam and the Future of the Republic (Pluto Press, 2018).

Muriam Haleh Davis is an associate professor in the history department at the University of California, Santa Cruz where she teaches classes on post-colonial North Africa, Arab thought and French empire. Her publications include Markets of Civilization: Islam and Racial Capitalism in Algeria (Duke University Press, 2022) and articles in The Journal of Modern History and The Journal of European Integration. She also co-edited North Africa and the Making of Europe: Governance, Institutions and Culture (Bloomsbury, 2018). In addition to MERIP, she also contributes to the Maghreb Page on Jadaliyya as a co-editor.

Lisa Hajjar is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her work focuses mainly on issues relating to law and conflict, specifically the enforcement of international human rights and humanitarian laws in the context of armed conflicts. Her research addresses military courts and occupations, torture and targeted killing. Her publications include Courting Conflict: The Israeli Military Court System in the West Bank and Gaza (University of California Press, 2005), Torture: A Sociology of Violence and Human Rights (Routledge 2013) and The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight against Torture (University of California Press, 2022).

Kaveh Ehsani is associate professor of international studies at DePaul University.

Adam Hanieh is professor of political economy and global development at IAIS, University of Exeter, and Joint Chair at the Institute of International and Area Studies (IIAS) at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. His research focuses on political economy, with an emphasis on the states of the Gulf Cooperation Council.

Vickie Langohr is associate professor at College of the Holy Cross. Her teaching and research interests are in Middle East politics, women’s rights and democratization.

Lee O’Brien began her career working for various local and international human rights and research NGOs in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Palestine. Between 1992 and 2000 she headed UNRWA’s research office in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and then moved to United Nations headquarters in New York where she was deputy director of the Middle East desk in the Department of Political Affairs from 2003 to her retirement in 2014. Lee is a long-time MERIP contributor and supporter and author of American Jewish Organizations and Israel (Institute for Palestine Studies, Washington D.C., 1986). She studied sociology at UC Berkeley and has a Masters in Contemporary Arab Studies from Georgetown University.

Mary Sexton served as the Director of Major Donors and Planned Giving at Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) from 2002-2021. Prior to MSF, Mary was Director of National Accounts at Simon and Schuster and Random House. She has an MA in journalism/international communications from Northern Illinois University.

Mandy Terc is the executive director of MERIP.

Ayça Alemdaroğlu is the Associate Director of the Program on Turkey and Research Scholar at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. She is a political sociologist, focusing on social and political inequality and change in Turkey and the Middle East. Ayça’s recent work examines youth politics, and authoritarianism. In “Governing the youth in times of dissent: Essay competitions, politics of history and affective pedagogies” (forthcoming), she examines the politics of history and emotional tactics the Justice and Development Party (AKP) uses in its effort to control, administer and recruit youth. She also served as a guest editor for MERIP’s Fall 2018 issue, “Confronting the New Turkey.”

Lori Allen is reader in anthropology at SOAS University of London. She is the author of The Rise and Fall of Human Rights: Cynicism and Politics in Occupied Palestine (Stanford, 2013) and A History of False Hope: Investigative Commissions in Palestine (Stanford, 2020).

Sabiha Allouche is a Lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of Exeter and works in the fields of Gender and Sexuality Studies and Middle East politics. While being primarily situated within feminist and queer studies, her work engages with feminist approaches to violence, conflict, migration, and social mobility. She has published in IJMES (International Journal of Middle East Studies), JMEWS (Journal of Middle East Women Studies), and WSQ (Women Studies Quarterly). She sits on the advisory board of Kohl: A Journal for Body and Gender Research and is a member of BRISMES’ (British Society for Middle Eastern Studies) Council.

Mona Atia is associate professor of Geography and International Affairs and director of the Institute for Middle East Studies at the George Washington University. She is a critical development geographer whose areas of expertise include Islamic charity, philanthropy, housing/urban development, the production of poverty knowledge and the spatial politics of marginalization. She is author of Building a House in Heaven: Pious Neoliberalism and Islamic Charity in Egypt (University of Minnesota Press, 2013).

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), as well as a number of articles in both English and Turkish in journals such as American Ethnologist, Political and Legal Anthropology Review and New Perspectives on Turkey; as well as edited volumes such as Diaspora and Memory: Figures of Displacement in Contemporary Literature, Arts and Politics.

Jessica Barnes is associate professor in the department of geography and School of Earth, Ocean, and Environment at the University of South Carolina. Her work focuses on the culture and politics of resource use and environmental change in the Middle East. Her publications include Staple Security: Bread and Wheat in Egypt (Duke University Press, 2022), Cultivating the Nile: The Everyday Politics of Water in Egypt (Duke University Press, 2014), Climate Cultures: Anthropological Perspectives on Climate Change (coedited with Michael Dove, Yale University Press, 2015) and articles in Cultural Anthropology, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Social Studies of Science, Critique of Anthropology and Society and Space.

Gregory Brew is a Visiting Scholar at the Jackson School of Global Affairs at Yale University and a historian of oil, US-Iranian relations, and the Cold War. His research explores the connections between the global political economy of oil, geopolitics and international relations, and petro-state development in the modern Middle East. His work includes Petroleum and Progress in Iran: Oil, Development, and the Cold War (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and The Struggle for Iran: Oil, Autocracy, and the Cold War, 1951-1954 (University of North Carolina Press, 2023). He regularly comments on contemporary issues of energy and geopolitics. Find him on Twitter: @gbrew24

Muriam Haleh Davis is an associate professor in the history department at the University of California, Santa Cruz where she teaches classes on post-colonial North Africa, Arab thought and French empire. Her publications include Markets of Civilization: Islam and Racial Capitalism in Algeria (Duke University Press, 2022) and articles in The Journal of Modern History and The Journal of European Integration. She also co-edited North Africa and the Making of Europe: Governance, Institutions and Culture (Bloomsbury, 2018). In addition to MERIP, she also contributes to the Maghreb Page on Jadaliyya as a co-editor.

Lisa Hajjar is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her work focuses mainly on issues relating to law and conflict, specifically the enforcement of international human rights and humanitarian laws in the context of armed conflicts. Her research addresses military courts and occupations, torture and targeted killing. Her publications include Courting Conflict: The Israeli Military Court System in the West Bank and Gaza (University of California Press, 2005), Torture: A Sociology of Violence and Human Rights (Routledge 2013) and The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight against Torture (University of California Press, 2022).

Najib Hourani is an associate professor of anthropology and holds a joint appointment with the Graduate Global Urban Studies Program. He received his BA in political science and an MA in Middle East and North African studies from the University of Michigan. Hourani has published extensively on the post-conflict reconstruction of Beirut following the Lebanese Civil War and the 2006 Summer War. In addition he has explored “market driven” urban development and redevelopment in Amman, Jordan.

Mohammad Ali Kadivar is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Studies at Boston College. His work contributes to political and comparative-historical sociology by exploring the causes, dynamics, and consequences of protest movements. He is the author of Popular Politics and the Path to Durable Democracy.

Reinoud Leenders is a reader in international relations and Middle East studies in the War Studies Department at King’s College London. His research interests and teaching focus on Middle East politics generally and Syria, Lebanon and Iraq in particular. His work deals with the political economy of corruption, authoritarian governance, refugee issues, and conflict. He is the author of many journal articles and the book Spoils of Truce: Corruption and State-Building in Postwar Lebanon (Cornell University Press, 2012).

Shana Marshall is associate director of the Institute for Middle East Studies at the George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. She earned her PhD in international relations and comparative politics of the Middle East at the University of Maryland in 2012. Her research focuses on the political economy of the military in Egypt, Jordan and the UAE, and has written for Middle East Report (MERIP), The International Journal of Middle East Studies, Jadaliyya and the Carnegie Middle East Center.

Pete W. Moore is the Marcus A. Hanna Associate Professor in Politics at Case Western Reserve University. He has held previous faculty positions at Concordia University, Dartmouth College, and the University of Miami in Coral Gables. His research explores issues of political economy, state-society relations, and sub-state conflict in the Gulf and the Levant.

Maha Nassar is an associate professor in the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Arizona, where she specializes in the cultural and intellectual history of the modern Arab world. Other research interests include decolonization movements, indigeneity, and US media discourse on Palestine and Palestinians. Her award-winning book, Brothers Apart: Palestinian Citizens of Israel and the Arab World (Stanford, 2017), shows how Palestinian intellectuals inside the Green Line connected to global decolonization movements through literary and journalistic writings. Her scholarly articles have appeared in the Journal of Palestine Studies, Arab Studies Journal, and elsewhere.

Curtis Ryan is a professor of political science at Appalachian State University in North Carolina. Ryan served as a Fulbright Scholar (1992-93) at the Center for Strategic Studies, University of Jordan, in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, and was twice named a Peace Scholar by the United States Institute of Peace. He is the author of three books: Jordan in Transition: From Hussein to Abdullah (Lynne Rienner, 2002), Inter-Arab Alliances: Regime Security and Jordanian Foreign Policy (University Press of Florida, 2009) and Jordan and the Arab Uprisings – Regime Survival and Politics Beyond the State (Columbia University Press, 2018).

Jacob Mundy is an associate professor at Colgate University and was a Fulbright Scholar with the Université de Tunis in 2018–2019. He is the author of Imaginative Geographies of Algerian Violence (Stanford University Press, 2015) and Libya (Polity Press, 2018).

Atef Said is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research interests include social theory, political sociology, social movements, revolutions and sociology of the Middle East as well as sociology of colonialism and empire. Before starting his academic career, Said worked as a human rights attorney and researcher in Egypt from 1995 to 2004, where he practiced human rights law and directed research initiatives in different human rights organizations. He wrote two books Torture in Egypt: A Judicial Reality (2000), published by the Human Rights Center for the Assistance of Prisoners, and Torture Is a Crime Against Humanity (2008), published by the Hisham Mubarak Law Center. Both organizations are based in Cairo, Egypt. He is currently working on a book manuscript about the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 and its aftermath.

Hesham Sallam is a research scholar at Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) and serves as the associate director of the Program on Arab Reform and Democracy. He is also a co-editor of Jadaliyya ezine. His research focuses on Islamist movements and the politics of economic reform in the Arab World. He is author of Classless Politics: Islamist Movements, the Left, and Authoritarian Legacies in Egypt (Columbia University Press, 2022), co-editor of Struggles for Political Change in the Arab World (University of Michigan Press, 2022) and editor of Egypt’s Parliamentary Elections 2011-2012: A Critical Guide to a Changing Political Arena (Tadween Publishing, 2013).

Kevin L. Schwartz is Deputy Director at the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague where he focuses on Iran. He was previously a research fellow at the Library of Congress and Distinguished Visiting Professor (Middle East Chair) at the US Naval Academy. His writing on Iran, US foreign policy, and the politics and societies of the Middle East has appeared in Al Jazeera, The Hill, and The New Arab. Recent publications include Remapping Persian Literary History, 1700-1900 (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), “Visual Propaganda at a Crossroads: New Techniques at Iran’s Vali Asr Billboard” (Visual Studies, 2021), and “Citizen Martyrs: The Afghan Fatemiyoun Brigade in Iran” (Afghanistan, 2022). His current research explores how government and government-affiliated actors in Iran use visual iconography and digital media to represent and circulate regime ideology and narrativize the history and culture of the Islamic Republic. He holds a PhD in Near Eastern Studies from the University of California, Berkeley.

Deen Sharp is an LSE Fellow in Human Geography in the department of geography and environment at the London School of Economics. He was previously a post-doctoral fellow at the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the co-director of Terreform, Center for Advanced Urban Research. He is the co-editor of Beyond the Square: Urbanism and the Arab Uprisings (Urban Research, 2016) and Open Gaza (American University in Cairo Press and Terreform, 2021).

Nabil Al-Tikriti is professor of Middle East history at the University of Mary Washington and and vice-chair of MERIP’s editorial committee. He was a member of the MSF/Doctors Without Borders USA Board of Directors from 2011 to 2017, culminating as vice president in 2016-17. He has also served as a consultant, election monitor and relief worker at several field locations in Europe, Asia and Africa. His research focuses on early modern Ottoman history, modern Iraq and Turkey, and humanitarian affairs.

Stacey Philbrick Yadav is associate professor of international relations at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. She specializes in comparative politics of the Middle East and teaches classes in Middle East politics, social movements, political violence, and qualitative and interpretive methods. Her research focuses primarily on the relationship between state and non-state actors and the role of civil actors in armed conflict, particularly in Yemen. She is the author of Yemen in the Shadow of Transition (Hurst/Oxford University Press, 2022).