Arab Reform Initiative

Folke Bernadotte Academy

Rita (Pseudonym)

Women's rights activist

Mohamed Abdel Hadi Shantir

Political Science Researcher

Abdelkader al Khadiri

Alice Alunni

Researcher at Durham University

Khalil Dagher

Social Protection Specialist, UNICEF (Lebanon)

Jana Dhaiby

Journalist

Lilian A. Ghandour

Associate Professor of Epidemiology, American University of Beirut

Diana Abbas

Co-Founder Impact Lebanon

Hassan Abbas

Syrian Researcher and author.

Mona Abbas Fadhl

Bahraini Researcher and Writer.

Dalia Abd Elhameed

Ahmed Abd Rabou

Visiting Scholar at the Center for Middle East Studies, University of Denver’s Josef Korbel School of International Studies.

Nadine Abdalla

Assistant Professor of Sociology, American University in Cairo

Bilal Abdallah

Adel Abdel Ghafar

Nayera Abdel Rahman

Mohammad Abdel Salam

Research Fellow at Al Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies

Ziad Abdel Samad

Executive Director, Arab NGO Network for Development

Soha Abdelaty

Reem Abdelhaliem

Egyptian economist

Islam Abdelmajid

Yacine Abderahmane

Algerian writer and researcher

Suzanne Abdul-Reda Abourjeili

Faculty member, Faculty of Education - Lebanese University

Eyyad Abdullah

Esham Abdullah Al-Eryani

SAWT Fellow 2022-2023 (Yemen)

Ibtisam Abdulmula

SAWT Fellow 2022-2023 (Libya)

Carol Abi Ghanem

Social psychologist and strategist

Marie-Noëlle AbiYaghi

Director, Lebanon Support

Lina Abou Habib

Director, Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship, AUB

Heba Abou Shnief

Research Advisor at the John D. Gerhart Center for Philanthropy and Civic Engagement at the American University of Cairo.

Sawsan Abou Zainedin

Syrian architect and urban development planner

Oussama AbouBakr

Noha Aboueldahab

Fellow, Brookings Doha Center

Younes Abouyoub

United Nations

Yasmina Abouzzohour

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Belfer Center for International Affairs, Harvard University

Maymoona Abu-omair

Coordination leader of monitoring, evaluation and learning activities at MENA Youth for Climate Action

Paul Achcar

Retired Journalist

Moussa Acherchour

Independent researcher

Tewfick Aclimandos

Amr Adly

Non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center.

Hanin Ahmad

Syrian civil activist

Mohamed Ahmed Bennis

Research Fellow, Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches en Sciences Sociales, Rabat

Hind Ahmed Zaki

Consultant at Nazra for Feminist Studies, Cairo, Egypt.

Ismail Ait Bassou

PhD Student in Sociology and Anthropology, Mohammed V University (Rabat), Morocco

Maher Akhttiar

Maher Akhttiar is a writer and researcher.

Viviane Akiki

Economic Journalist

Bilqees Al Abdaly

SAWT Fellow 2022-2023 (Yemen)

Assaad Al Achi

Executive Director, Baytna (Syria)

Rasha Al Aqeedi

Senior Analyst and Program Head, Human Security Unit, Newlines Institute

Araa Al Jaramani

Maher Al Junaidy

Researcher, author, journalist, and media consultant

Isam al Khafaji

Iraqi scholar and writer

Almoutassim Al Kilani

Syrian jurist specializing in international law and human rights.

Maged Al Madhaji

Researcher, human rights activist and Director of the Center for Civil Rights and Democracy in Yemen

Hani al Masri

Director of the Bada’el Centre for Information, Research and Studies in Egypt.

Abdul Kafi al Rahabi

Assistant Professor at the Yemeni Center for Studies and Research.

Fatima Al Sayah, PhD

Health services and health outcomes researcher at the School of Public Health, University of Alberta (Canada)

Ranime Al Sheltawy

Abedbasset al Wasi

Sasha Al-Alou

Syrian researcher and author of several studies and research papers

Sokrat Al-Alou

Syrian researcher

Mustafa Al-Awik

Editor-in-chief, Lebanon Arabi

Abdel-Nasser al-Ayed

A novelist and researcher in Syrian military and strategic affairs.

Awadh Al-Badi

Research Fellow at King Faisal Centre for Research and Islamic Studies, Saudi Arabia.

Akram Al-Bunni

Syrian writer.

Elie Al-Chaer

Professor and Chairperson

Maysaa Shuja Al-Deen

Yemeni researcher

Abderrahman al-Haj

Professor at Social Sciences University of Ankara.

Hanaa Al-Khder

Member of the, Syrian Women's Political Movement

Mohammed Al-Mahfali

Affiliated Researcher, Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies- Lund University, Sweden

Younes al-Marzouki

Ali Al-Mawlawi

Head of Research at Al-Bayan Center, Iraq

Mohamed Al-Mekhlafi

Hadil Al-Mowafak

Research Analyst

Ghassan Al-Mufleh

Syrian journalist.

Abbas Al-Murshid

Bahraini Researcher

Osamah Al-Rawhani

Deputy Executive Director - Sana’a Center for Strategic Studies

Hashim Al-Rikabi

Assistant Lecturer at University of Kufa, Iraq

Ibraheem Al-Saadi

Stagaire

Amr Al-Shobaki

Former Egyptian parliamentarian and head of the Arab European unit in the Al-Ahram Centre for Political and Strategic Studies.

Azmi al-Shuaibi

Director of AMAN, first coalition of civil society organizations in Palestine.

Nabeeha Al-Taha

Syrian Journalist

Abdulnabi Alekry

President of the Bahrain Transparency Society.

Ismail Alexandrani

Freelance journalist and field researcher at the Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights.

Ali Taher Alhammood

Managing director, Al-Bayan Center for Planning and Studies

Ahmad Alhassab

ARI Non-Resident Fellow - Yemeni researcher

Dina Ali

Translator

Fathi Ali

Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Benghazi, Libya.

Riyad Ali

A Syrian judge

Rim Aljabi

SAWT Fellow 2022-2023 (Syria)

Rozan AlKhazendar

SAWT Fellow 2022-2023 (Palestine)

Nadia Alkshaik

SAWT Fellow 2022-2023 (Libya)

Basma Alloush

Advocacy and Communications Officer at the Norwegian Refugee Council USA.

Huda Alsahi

Researcher - Gender & State-Society in the Gulf

Maha Alsakban

SAWT Fellow 2022-2023 (Iraq)

Carole Alsharabati

Research Director, Siren Associates

Jafar Alshayeb

Saudi writer and rights activist

Malak Altaeb

Libyan researcher

Jamal Altahat

Senior fellow in the Institute for Statecraft, London.

Tamara Altibi

SAWT Fellow 2022-2023 (Palestine)

Hussein Alwaday

Writer and media expert on the reality of the Yemeni and Arab religious movements.

Mohammad Alwuhaib

Professor of political philosophy at Kuwait University and the Head of the Kuwait Center for Active Citizenship

Amal (Pseudonym)

Feminist community and peacebuilding activist, and human rights defender

Ahmed Amin

Amine al-Sharif

Ilina Angelova

Sirine Anouti

Public Health Researcher, Lebanese Epidemiological Association

Sirine Anouti

Public Health Researcher, Lebanese Epidemiological Association

Rachid Aourraz

Arab Reform Initiative

Article 19

Roger Asfar

Syrian journalist and researcher

Nizam Assaf

Director of the Amman Center for Human Rights Studies

Lydia Assouad

Research fellow, World Inequality Lab

Lina Atallah

Journalist and Co-founder of Mada Masr

Jaime Atienza

Global Debt Policy Lead, Oxfam International

Nidhal Attia

Coordinator of Environmental Program, Heinrich Böll Stiftung North Africa-Tunisia

Khouloud Ayari

Independent researcher

Joey Ayoub

Lebanese writer, researcher and activist based in Geneva

Abdelrahman Ayyash

Egyptian researcher and journalist

Tariq Azizah

Tariq Azizah is a Syrian author and researcher

Maha Azzam

Associate fellow, Middle East and North Africa programme, Chatham House

Cecilia Baeza

Professor of International Relations at Pontificia Universidade Católica and the Getulio Vargas Foundation in São Paulo.

Ahmad Baha’eddin Shaaban

Member of the Egyptian Movement for Change “Kifaya”.

Sami Bahri

Tunisian activist

Alessandra Bajec

Freelance journalist - Tunis

Adel Bakawan

Director, Centre Français des Recherches sur l'Irak

Noha Bakr

Professor of Political Science at the American University in Cairo (AUC)

Zeina Bali

Co-Founder SPACE

Nassim Balla

Independent Algerian researcher and civil society activist

Alexandra Barahona de Brito

Expert on human rights and democratisation issues and on the politics of memory.

Hala Barakat

Archaeobotanist

Ronald Barakat

Executive Director of Lebanese Transparency Association.

Jessica Barnes

Scholar of resource use and environmental change in the Middle East

Wesam Basandu

Yemeni Researcher and Political Writer

Baseera

Bahar Başer

Associate Professor at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University, UK

Khayreddine Basha

Tunisian legal expert and writer

Zahra Bazzi

Arab NGOs Network for Development

Hedia Belhaj Youssef

Program Coordinator, Gender-Based Violence Program, Center of Arab Women for Training and Research (CAWTAR)

Rabia Belhejla

Tarek Ben Chaabane

Haykel Ben Mahfoudh

Professor of Law in the Faculty of Legal, Political and Social Sciences at the University of Carthage.

Ines Ben Saad Nagara

Tunisian Union of Agriculture and Fishery (UTAP)

Sihem Ben Sedrine

Former President of the Truth and Dignity Commission (IVD)

Joachim Ben Yakoub

Writer, researcher and lecturer

Mohamed Benhlal

Said Bennis

Professor at Mohamed V University – Faculty of Literature and Social Science

Myriam Benraad

Mehdi K. Benslimane

Hamza Bensouda

Moroccan student

Ahmed Berkia

Secretary General, Arab Forum for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Alain Bifani

Former Director General of Finance, Ministry of Finance (Lebanon)

Hameed Bohkak

Research fellow, Centre d’études et de recherches en sciences sociales, Rabat.

Lisa Bossenbroek

Researcher

Cyrine Bouajila

Architect and professor at the National School of Architecture and Urbanisme (ENAU), Tunisia

Redouane Boudjemaa

Professor of Media and Communications, University of Algiers

Sofiane Bouhdiba

Sofiane Bouhdiba is a professor of demography at the University of Tunis, Tunisia.

Maha Bouhlel

Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Faculty of Letters, Arts and Humanities, Manouba University, Tunisia

Salah Boukenia

Algerian economist

Samia Bouslema Ltaief

Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights (FTDES)

Thierry Brésillon

Freelance journalist

Diana Buttu

Ramallah-based analyst and lawyer

Eduardo Cabrita

Member of the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic.

Natasha Carmi

Lead Water Specialist, Geneva Water Hub

Sara Catherine Mourani

Volunteer Research Fellow, Psychiatry Department, American University of Beirut

Myriam Catusse

Researcher at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and Institut Français du Proche Orient (IFPO)

Gavin Cawthra

Chair in Defence and Security Management at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

Hatem Chakroun

Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences in Tunis and researcher at the Tunisian Monitor of Democratic Transition.

Chérine Chams El-Dine

Assistant Professor of Political Science, Faculty of Economics and Political Science at Cairo University

Kareem Chehayeb

Journalist

Hafedh Chekir

Demographer and statistician and member of the Observatoire Tunisien de la Transition Démocratique.

Hafedha Chekir

Professor of Public Law and human rights activist.

Rachid Chennani

Massensen Cherbi

Doctor in Law - Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas

Anis Chérif-Alami

Researcher

Farah Choucair

Project Manager, Arab Development Portal (UNDP)

Alain Christnacht

Former High Commissioner of the French Republic in New Caledonia and a former Adviser to the State.

Francesco Colin

Virginie Collombier

Georgia Dagher

Political researcher and data analyst at The Policy Initiative

Joseph Daher

Part-time Affiliate Professor at the European University Institute, in the "Wartime and Post-Conflict in Syria Project"

Karim Daher

President, ALDIC

Ghazi Dahman

Syrian writer and journalist.

Farah Daibes

Senior Program Manager, Political Feminism (MENA), Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung

Muna Dajani

Palestinian environmental researcher and activist

Antranik Dakessian

Associate Professor at the Haigazian University in Beirut.

Pedro Dallari

Danish Refugee Council

Sami Daoud

Researcher

Salma Daoudi

Sabr Darwish

Sabr Darwish is a researcher and journalist.

Fatiha Dazi-Héni

Gulf and Middle East researcher at IRSEM

Aïda Delpuech

Independent journalist

Blandine Destremau

Eleni Diker

Migration researcher, UNU-MERIT / Maastricht University

Ishac Diwan

Professor of Economics at Paris Sciences et Lettres

Nacer Djabi

Professor of sociology at the University of Algiers II

Daho Djerbal

Assistant Professor and Head of Naqd Magazine, Algeria.

Brookings Doha Center

Siham Drissi

Souha Drissi

PhD student, Tunisia

Mathilde Dugit-Gros

Khawla Dunia

SAWT Fellow 2022-2023 (Syria)

Michele Dunne

Senior Associate, Middle East Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Salah Eddin Jorshi

Tunisian Journalist, Researcher and Expert in Islamic movements and Civil Society.

Rabea Eghbariah

Palestinian researcher and human rights attorney

Khoder Eid

Founder, Green Track (Lebanon)

Mohamed El Agati

Director, Arab Forum for Alternative Studies

Samir El Aita

General Director of Mafhoum (Concept) and Le Monde Diplomatique - Arabic Edition

Yasmina El Amine

PhD Candidate, University College London

Laila El Baradei

Professor of Public Administration, American University in Cairo (AUC)

Karim El Chazli

PhD student in law at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris.

Yosra El Gendi

Anas El Hasnaoui

Moroccan researcher

Ghinwa El Hayek

Public Health Researcher, Lebanese Epidemiological Association

Nadim El Jamal

Research Fellow

Soraya El Kahlaoui

Moroccan activist and researcher

Nadim El Kak

Researcher, Lebanese Center for Policy Studies

Samer El Khoury

Environmental Activist, Co-founder (Green Mount Recycling)

Amina El Messaoudi

Professor in Consitutional Law, University Mohammed V, Morocco.

Shimaa El Sharkawy

Researcher

Youssef El-Chazli

Magdi El-Gizouli

Sudanese academic and Fellow at the Rift Valley Institute.

Hossam el-Hamalawy

Egyptian journalist, photographer, and socialist activist

Ibrahim El-Houdaiby

Independent political researcher.

Fadi El-Jardali

Professor of Health Policy and Systems, American University of Beirut

Joseph El-Khoury

MD MSc PGCert. (EBPT), FRCPsych

Noha El-Mikawy

Dean of the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, AUC

Omar El-Shenety

Bououchma Elhadi

ElSayed Mahmoud ElSehamy

PhD candidate, University of Manchester

Abd el-Rahman Elzoghaimy

Political Activist.

Moaaz ElZoughby

Former analyst and project manager at Arab Reform Initiative

Belhassen Ennouri

Ahmed Ezzat

Egyptian lawyer and human rights activist

Heba Raouf Ezzat

Assistant professor of Political Theory and Civilization Studies at ibn Haldun-Istanbul University.

Hiba Ezzideen

Syrian feminist and rights activist

Georges Fahmi

Researcher at Arab Forum for Alternatives, PhD researcher at the European University in Florence.

Hani Fakhani

Architect

Tamirace Fakhoury

Associate professor in Political Sciences and International Affairs

Balsam Faleh Mahdi Ali Al-Tamimi

SAWT Fellow 2022-2023 (Iraq)

Jihad Farah

Scholar of urban planning in Lebanon

Chadi Faraj

Co-founder of "Riders' Rights" and the Network for Mobility Justice

Yasmine Farouk

Omar Fassatoui

Human Rights Officer, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (Tunisia)

Mohammed Fathy Hassan

Sameh Fawzi

Egyptian Researcher

Ismail Fayed

Independent writer and researcher.

Ali Fayyad

Director of the Studies and Documentation Center, Lebanon.

Dina Fazani

SAWT Fellow 2022-2023 (Libya)

Shivan Fazil

Researcher at the MENA Program at SIPRI

Thomas Fibiger

Associate Professor, University of Aarhus, Denmark

Jean-Pierre Filiu

Middle East History Professor at Sciences Po

Rachel Forrester-Jones

Director and Professor, School of Health Studies at Western University (ON-Canada)

Jeremie Fosse

Co-founder and President, Eco-Union

Fouad Fouad

Co-Director, Refugees Health Program, AUB

Fouad Mohammad Fouad

Surgeon and Visiting Assistant Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut.

Emna Fourati

Researcher and environmental activist

Antonio Franco Garcia

Social Protection Specialist, UNICEF (Lebanon)

Hind Ftouhi

Hassan II Veterinary and Agronomic Institute

Roba Gaafar

Economics Researcher

Mohamed Gad

Economic Journalist

Ehab Galal

Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Wael Gamal

Economist

Heba Gamaldin

Bouhania Gaoui

Florence Gaub

Deputy Director, EU Institute for Security Studies, Paris

Carmen Geha

Non-Resident Senior Fellow

Chiara Genovese

Consortium Manager, CAMEALEON

Nael Georges

Hanin Ghaddar

Managing Editor of NOW – English (mmedia.me) and board member at the Arab Reform Initiative.

Alaa Ghanaam

Head of Right to Health Unit, Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR)

Omar Ghannam

Egyptian political economist

Ahmad Gharbeia

Information activist

Reem Ghassan

SAWT Fellow 2022-2023 (Iraq)

Marie-Christine Ghreichi

Campaign and Research Assistant, Crisis Action, New York

Cláudio Gonçalves Couto

Department of Public Management, Getulio Vargas Foundation, São Paulo, Brazil.

KM Gopakumar

Legal Advisor, Third World Network (TWN)

Bouhania Goui

Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Kasdi Merbah University, Algeria.

Moussa Grifa

Researcher, Tripoli University, Libya.

Bridget Guarasci

Anthropologist and scholar of Iraq

Nour Hachem

Project Officer, Siren Associates

Mohammed Hachemaoui

Professor of Political Science at the University of Algeria

Lydia Haddag

PhD Candidate

Waseem Hafez

A reseacher into Syrian affairs

Issam Haj Hussein

Operations Director for the Coalition for Accountability and Integrity (AMAN), Palestine.

Firas Haj Yehia

Syrian human rights lawyer.

Yasseen Haj-Saleh

Syrian Writer

Taghrid Hajjali

President, Health and Environment Committee, Lebanese Order of Physicians

Samer Hajjar

Political activist and university professor

Lutfi Hajji

Tunisian journalist and human rights activist.

Fares Halabi

Arab Reform Initiative and active within the Lebanese protest movement

Sami Halabi

Director of Knowledge at Triangle

Hafsa Halawa

Independent consultant and Non-resident Fellow (Middle East Institute)

Fouad Halbouni

Amal Hamada

Assistant Professor, Political Science at the Department of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University

Kanj Hamade

Co-founder, Economic Development Solutions (EDS)

Ghassan Hamadeh

Professor & Chair, Family Medicine, CMIO, AUB Medical Center, American University of Beirut

Hacene Hami

Lecturer, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at the University Mohamed Lamine Debaghine - Setif 2

Abdelali Hamieddine

Professor of political science and constitutional law at the University of Mohammed V, Rabat.

Afef Hammami Marrakchi

Professor at Sfax Faculty of Law

Hamza Hamouchene

Algerian activist and researcher

Salwa Hamrouni

Mona Harb

Beirut Urban Lab, AUB

Seham Harb

Retired professor of education at the Faculty of Education at the Lebanese University

Mujahid Hashim Yahia

Shimaa Hatab

Mohamed Hegazy

Founder and Director of Transport for Cairo (TfC)

Yasmin Helal

Journalist and researcher

Darine Helwe

Reporter, Sky News Arabia

Mennatullah Hendawy

Co-founder, Cairo Urban AI

Sabina Henneberg

Soref Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Ghazi Hidouci

Former Algerian economy minister.

Salma Houerbi

Independent Researcher

Khaled Hroub

Director of the Cambridge Arab Media Project at Cambridge University, United Kingdom.

Hussam Hussein

Scholar of hydropolitics in Jordan

Salma Hussein

Economic Researcher and Journalist

Marwa Husseino

Volunteer, Syrian Civil Defense

Sylvia I. Bergh

Alia Ibrahim

Co-founder, Daraj Media

Haydar Ibrahim Ali

Director of the Center for Sudanese Studies.

Ayiman Ieweedat Abdullah

SAWT Fellow 2022-2023 (Libya)

Abeir Imneina

SAWT Fellow 2022-2023 (Libya)

Hussain Isma’eel

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine

Donia Ismail

Nahla Issa

Pharmaceutical Consultant

Mayaz Itani

Financial and Administrative IO

Stephen J. King

Professor of Government at Georgetown University

Sofien Jaballah

Assistant professor at the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences of Sfax

Hicham Jadaoun

Kawthar Jafar

Syrian civil activist and human rights defender

Rana Jawad

Director of Studies, Bath University

Emna Jeblawi

Tunisian academic and researcher.

Wisam Jouda

SAWT Fellow 2022-2023 (Palestine)

Murhaf Jouejati

Mohamed Jouili

Professor in Sociology, University of Tunis

Eya Jrad

Researcher and Assistant Professor of Security Studies and Criminal Justice, Tunisia

Vahakn Kabakian

Climate Change Advisor/Project Manager, UNDP, Ministry of Environment

Nawaf Kabbara

President, National Association for the Rights of Disabled People in Lebanon

Oula Kadhum

Mohamed Kadiri

Assistant Professor of Sociology, Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Morocco

Mohamed Kadri Said

Head of Strategic and Security Studies Unit, Al-Ahram Center for Political & Strategic Studies, Cairo, Egypt.

Lea Kai

Manager of UNDP’s Climate change projects at the Ministry of Environment

Mohamed Kamal

Mohamed Kamal, Co-director (Greenish)

Azza Kamel Maghur

Libyan lawyer and member of the Libyan Council for Human Rights.

Tala Kammourieh

Coordinator of Urban Analysis and Policy, UN-Habitat

Rowaida Kanaan

General Secretary, Women's Political Movement

Karam Karam

Lebanese Center for Policy Studies.

Ayah Karra-Aly

Consultant (Intern)

Beesan Kassab

Rayan Kassem

West Asia Regional Director at Youth4Nature

Amer Katbeh

Freelance researcher

Sammy Kayed

Co-founder and Managing Director of the Environment Academy in Lebanon

Sara Kayyali

Human rights lawyer and analyst

Bilel Kckouk

Sélima Kebaïli

Tunisian sociology researcher

Salman Khairalla

Executive Director, Tigris River Protectors Association (Iraq)

Abdulhadi Khalaf

Bahraini Researcher and Associate Profesor at the Department of Sociology, Lund University.

Safaa Khalaf

Iraqi investigative journalist and independent researcher

Ruaa Khalaf Sharhan

SAWT Fellow 2022-2023 (Iraq)

Mustafa Khalifa

Jade Khalife

Independent Health Expert

Amir Khalil

Omnia Khalil

Samar Khalil

Environmental Management Specialist

Shady Khalil

Co-Founder, Greenish (Egypt)

Zineddine Kharchi

Sociology professor, Mohamed Lamine Debaghine Setif 2 University

Lina Khatib

Head of Middle East and North Africa Programme, Chatham House, London.

Munira Khayyat

Anthropologist, war ecologies in South Lebanon

Rachid Khechana

Tunisian Writer and Journalist.

Intissar Kherigi

Salim Khiat

Researcher in anthropology - Algeria

Brigitte Khoury

Vice Chair, Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut (AUB)

Marie Kortam

Researcher at the Institut français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo)

Michèle Kosremelli Asmar

Associate Professor at Université Saint-Joseph and Director of the Higher Institute of Public Health

Cynthia Kreidy

Policy Analyst, Millennium Institute

Khawla Ksiksi

Radha Kumar

Ezzan Kunna

Sudanese public health expert and writer

Taher Labadi

PhD in economics from Paris-Dauphine University in France

Karima Lazali

Clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst

Alimar Lazkani

Syrian researcher

Reinoud Leenders

Associate Professor - King’s College London

Felix Legrand

Independent researcher and consultant working on Syria.

Clóvis Henrique Leite de Souza

Clémentine Lienard

Executive Trainee, EU Institute for Security Studies, Paris

Chiara Loschi

Scholar of waste management in Tunisia

Adel Ltifi

Lecturer in contemporary history of the Arab World at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3.

Derek Lutterbeck

Deputy Director and Holder of the Swiss Chair at the Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies, Malta.

Benjamin Lydon

Joelle M. Abi-Rached

Invited Researcher at the École normale supérieure and Associate Researcher at Sciences Po

John M. Carey

Professor of Government, Dartmouth College

Lassaâd M'Sahli

Secretary General, Tunisia's Pharmaceuticals Science Society

Amani Maalouf

Postdoctoral Researcher, Oxford - UK.

Habib Maalouf

Journalist

Olivia Macharis

Issam Fares Institute on Public Policy and International Affairs in Beirut

Abidine Maettalla

Mauritanian Activist

Faisal Mahboub

Azzam Mahjoub

Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Tunis.

Rustom Mahmoud

Syrian writer and researcher

Rayan Majed

Lebanese journalist and researcher

Ziad Majed

Political Scientist and Associate Professor at AUP

Ayssen Makni

Karim Mallak

Antoine Maltais

French researcher.

Dina Mandour

PhD Candidate at Université Paris

Afifa Mannai

Researcher in political sciences and former university professor

Kholoud Mansour

SAWT Fellow 2022-2023 (Syria)

Rida Marae

Legal Researcher and Lawyer, Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights

Christophe Maroun

Environmental Justice Program Manager, Heinrich Böll Foundation - MENA

Dima Marrawi

Advocacy and Communications Manager, SAMS

Alexander Martin

Assistant Professor, South Mediterranean University-MedTech

Luis Martinez

Senior Research Fellow, CERI- Sciences Po, Paris.

Rafael Martinez

Professor of Political Science at the University of Barcelona. Associated researcher, CIDOB

Mohammed Masbah

Director of the Moroccan Institute for Policy Analysis

Stephan Massing

World Bank Group

Mohammed Islem Mbarki

Brent McCann

Consultant at Camber Collective, USA

Daraj Media

Ahmed Mefreh

Director, Committee for Justice

Zaki Mehchy

Associate Fellow (Chatham House) and Policy Fellow (LSE)

Pascal Ménoret

Research Fellow, King Faisal Foundation for Research and Islamic Studies

Franck Mermier

Jad Mezher

Anware Mnasri

Judge at the Administrative Court

Marwa Mohamed

Head of Advocacy and Outreach, Lawyers for Justice in Libya

Omar Mohammed

Adjunct Lecturer, Sciences Po Paris and PhD Candidate, EHESS -CETOBAC

Sahar Mohammed

Munia Mohammed Hassan Thabet

SAWT Fellow 2022-2023 (Yemen)

Ahmed Mohsen

Doctoral researcher, Sabah Zaim University, Istanbul

Habiba Mohsen

Researcher at the Arab Forum for Alternatives and programme co-ordinator at the Asfari Institute in Beirut.

Sherif Mohy El Deen

Egyptian Researcher and Coordinator on Counter Terrorism and Human Rights on EIPR organization

Wejdene Mokrani

Wejdene Mokrani has a Masters degree in Public Law and Political Sciences from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tunis El Manar.

Zeina Moneer

Egyptian environmental politics researcher

Samir Morcos

Researcher, one of the drafters of Al-Azhar document, and member of the Norwegian Academy of Literature and Freedom of Expression.

Ahmed Morsy

Senior Researcher, MENA Program at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) / Co-founder of the Arab Political Science Network (APSN)

Dana Moss

Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Notre Dame

El Mouhoub Mouhoud

Professor of Economics at Paris-Dauphine University.

Youssef Mounsif

Researcher at the Moroccan Centre for Social Sciences in Ain Chock, Casablanca

Ali Mourad

Assistant Professor of Public Law - Beirut Arab University (Lebanon)

Nayla Moussa

Mustafa Muhammad

Algerian writer and journalist.

Sudipto Mukerjee

UNDP resident representative in Syria

Alaa Murrar

SAWT Fellow 2022-2023 (Palestine)

Houda Mzioudet

Researcher

Omar Nashabe

Lecturer at the Lebanese American University and Criminal Justice analyst

Mona Nasrallah

Associate Professor - Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, American University of Beirut

Aya Nassar

PhD student at the University of Warwick, UK.

Yara Nassar

Electoral law expert

Rabie Nasser

Co-founder, Syrian Center for Policy Research (SCPR)

Reema Nazzal

SAWT Fellow 2022-2023 (Palestine)

Adib Nehmeh

Consultant and ANND Affiliate

Claire Nicoll

Save the Children Conflict & Humanitarian Advocacy Advisor

Asma Nouira

Professor of Political Science and Law at the University of El-Manar, Tunisia.

Saker El Nour

Sociologist

Selma Nour

Engineer, SPA Member

Sufian Obaidat

Jessica Obeid

Independent energy policy consultant

Suha Oda

SAWT Fellow 2022-2023 (Iraq)

Ibrahim Olabi

Barrister, Guernica 37 International Justice Chambers

Mohammed Omar Ahmed

Lecturer at the Faculty of Sharia and Law at the Puntland State University, and Editor-in-Chief of the media network Somalia Today.

Mansour Omari

Syrian journalist and human rights defender

Khalid Omer

Previous Sudanese Minister of Cabinet Affairs, Member of Central Council of Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC), Member of the Sudanese Congress Party Political Bureau

Peace and Freedom Organization

Magued Osman

Director – Egyptian Center for Public Opinion Research (Baseera)

Bashir Osmat

Former advisor to the Lebanese Ministry of Social Affairs

Mohammad Lemine Ould Bah

Mauritanian Lawyer and Human Rights Activist

Bouraoui Ouni

Senior Program Manager, Search For Common Ground - Tunisia

Saida Ounissi

Freelance consultant

Adel Ourabah

Researcher

Mohamed Outahar

Mohamed Outaher is a researcher in the sociology of religion and gender.

Katia Papagianni

Head of the Mediation Support Programme at the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Geneva.

Audrey Pluta

Doctoral student, Political Science, Sciences Po Aix

Stéphanie Pouessel

Anthropologist and urban mobility consultant in Tunisia

Stefano Prato

Managing Director, Society for International Development (SID)

Miriam Puttick

Head of Middle East and North Africa Programmes, Ceasefire Centre for Civilian Rights

Dalia Qassem

SAWT Fellow 2022-2023 (Yemen)

Rory Quick

Masters student, Economics and Policy of Energy and Environment, University College London

Ghina R. Mumtaz

Assistant Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, American University of Beirut

Mouin Rabbani

Independent analyst, commentator and researcher specializing in the contemporary Middle East

Iman Ragab

Nora Jasmin Ragab

Postdoctoral Researcher, UNU-MERIT / Maastricht University

Fatma Ramadan

Director of the Political Participation Program for Women and Youth at the Egyptian Women’s Affairs Foundation.

Farah Ramzy

PhD student at the University of Nanterre, Paris.

Hamadi Redissi

Professor of Public Law and Political Science, Faculty of Law and Political Science, University of Tunis.

Roland Riachi

Scholar of political ecology of food and water in the MENA

Layla Riahi

Researcher and activist

Michael Robbins

Director of the Arab Barometer

Zied Rouine

Director, Mnemty Association

Noha Roushdy

Cultural Anthropologist

Mostafa S. Adib

The head of the Centre for Middle Eastern Strategic Studies (CESMO), based in Lebanon and France (http://www.cesmo.org).

Abdallah Saaf

Director of the Centre for Studies and Research in Social Sciences at Mohammed V University.

Ossama Safa

Director of the Lebanese Center for Political Studies (LCPS)

Abdulaziz Sager

Nizar Saghieh

Executive Director - The Legal Agenda

Mohamed Sahbi Khalfaoui

Mohamed Sahbi Khalfaoui is a Lecturer and researcher at the faculty of legal, economic and accounting sciences, Jendouba, Tunisia.

Atef Said

Elham Said

SAWT Fellow 2022-2023 (Syria)

Omar Said

Yemeni journalist and researcher.

Mahmoud Salah

Pascale Salameh

Professor of Epidemiology - Lebanese University

Elizabeth Saleh

Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the American University of Beirut

Paul Salem

Director of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Middle East Center in Beirut

Najat Saliba

Khaddit Beirut

Saad Salloum

Assistant Professor of International Relations at the College of Political Science in Al-Mustansiryah University

Lana Salman

Researcher in Urban Governance and International Development

Omar Samir

Researcher

Denisa Sarajlic-Maglic

Deputy Minister of Civil Affairs for Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Abdel Sattar Hatita

Egyptian Novelist and Journalist in the daily Pan-Arab "Al-Sharq Al-Awsat" newspaper.

Elham Saudi

Director, Lawyers for Justice in Libya

Wael Sawah

Syrian journalist and writer

Abdel Moneim Sayed Ahmed

Assistant and field researcher

Yezid Sayigh

Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Middle East Center - Beirut

Arwa Sebbagh

Advocacy Officer, Aswat Nisaa

Narcís Serra

Leila Seurat

Omar Shaban

Omar Shaban is the director of PalThink for Strategic Studies, Palestine .

Yara Shahin

Abdelkhalig Shaib

Lawyer and Legal Counsel

Hajer Sharief

Co-founder and Senior Project Manager, Together We Build It

Yasmine Shash

Independent researcher

Dina Shehata

Researcher at the Al Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies in Cairo.

Mostafa Shehata

Assistant Professor, Menoufia University, Egypt

Ismael Sheikh Hassan

Urbanist and activist

Khalil Shikaki

Director at the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research.

Wasfiya Shikho

SAWT Fellow 2022-2023 (Iraq)

Maha Shuayb

Director of the Centre for Lebanese Studies (CLS) 

Ola Sidani

Program Coordinator, Lebanon Crisis Observatory (AUB)

Baker Sidqi

Syrian writer.

Hania Sobhy

Visiting Scholar, Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Marburg

Jeannie Sowers

Scholar of environmental politics in the Middle East

Zeinab Srour

Assistant researcher

Gerald Stang

Expert on democratic transitions, energy politics and foresight in international relations.

Egyptian student

Ahmad Sukkar

Assistant Professor, University of Sharjah, UAE

Khaled Sulaiman

Iraqi journalist of environmental issues in MENA

Said Sultan al Hashimi

Omani Researcher and Writer

Veton Surroi

Chairman of the Board, Foreign Policy Club, Kosovo

Konrad Sztyler

Ahmed Tabaqchali

CIO of Asia Frontier Capital Iraq Fund & Adjunct Assistant Professor at AUIS

Leena Taha

SAWT Fellow 2022-2023 (Syria)

Yaseen Taha Mohammed

Iraqi Researcher

Omar Taleb

Lawyer, Researcher, Activist (Lebanon)

Ahmad Tamer

Director General of Land and Maritime Transport, Ministry of Public Works and Transport (Lebanon)

Hossam Tammam

Late Egyptian Researcher on Islamic movements.

Manon-Nour Tannous

PhD candidate at Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II) and Research Associate to the Contemporary Arab History Chair at Collège de France

Lotfi Tarchouna

Professor of Public Law at the University of Sousse, Tunisia.

Mohammad Tariq

Alaa Tartir

Research Associate at the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding

Jean Tawilé

Economist

Rachid Tlemçani

University Professor, Algiers.

Amal Tobich

E-Learning and Outreach Analyst, UNDP IRH

Mari Toivanen 

Academy Research Fellow, Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki

Armenak Tokmajyan

Research Associate at Tampere Peace Research Institute (Tapri), Finland.

Malak Touma

Freelance journalist

Abdellah Tourabi

Moroccan journalist and researcher.

Ulfat Usta

Director - American University of Beirut Medical Center Pharmacy

Augusto Varas

Chairman of the Organization Aquetas (EQUITAS), Chile.

Ward Vloeberghs

Tamer Wageeh

Egyptian journalist

Noura Wahby

Scholar of urban waterscapes in Egypt

Abeer Wakid

SAWT Fellow 2022-2023 (Yemen)

Alex Walsh

Independent researcher specialising in security governance

Nawaf Wasfi Tell

Director of the Center for Strategic Studies, Jordan

Jessica Watkins

PhD candidate at the War Studies Department, King's College London.

Mohamed Wazif

PhD candidate at Hassan II University, Faculty of Legal, Economic and Social Sciences in Casablanca.

Folkert Woudstra

Researcher

Nasser Yassin

Minister of Environment, Lebanon

Nuhad Yazbik Dumit

Associate Professor, School of Nursing at the American University of Beirut

Jehad Yazigi

Jihad Yazigi 

Editor in chief of the Syria Report

Rana Yazigi

Zenia Yonus

PhD candidate, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Abderrafie Zaanoun

Law and Political Science Researcher

Zahiyah Faraj Ali

SAWT Fellow 2022-2023 (Libya)

Ali Zaid Al Zu’abi

Professor in Anthropology, Department of Sociology at the University of Kuwait.

Atiaf Zaid Alwazir

Development consultant, researcher and blogger based in Sana'a, Yemen.

Jalal Zain Aldin

Syrian researcher and journalist.

Agadid Zakaria

Kheder Zakaria

President of the Syrian Association for Social Sciences and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Harmoon Center for Contemporary Studies, Doha.

Lamia Zaki

Independent consultant on urban, governance and decentralization issues in MENA.

Mariam Zakout

SAWT Fellow 2022-2023 (Palestine)

Lamia Zargouni

Judge and Former Member of the Independent High Authority for Elections in Tunisia

Mohamad Zbib

Economic Journalist

Khaled Ziadeh

Director, Arab Center for Research and Studies (Beirut)

Genevieve Zingg

Legal Fellow at the Syria Justice and Accountability Centre

Mohamed Zmerli

National Focal Point (Tunisia), United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

Amenah Zubi

President and Founder, Jordanian Women's Union

Mahjoob Zweiri, PhD

Director of Gulf Studies Center, Qatar University

Wim Zwijnenburg

Humanitarian Disarmament Project Leader, PAX