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Shaymaa Abdou, Durham University
Mariam Aboelezz, Lancaster University
Natalie Abou Shakra, SOAS
Noha Aboueldahab, UCL
Munzer Aeid
Sikeena Ahmed, AKU-ISMC
Dr Derya Göçer Akder, Middle East Technical University
Nasrin Akhter, University of St Andrews
Mohammed Al Fahim, Al Fahim Group, UAE
Abbas Al Lawati, University of Exeter
Dr Sabha Al Shamisi, Emirates Foundation
Muath Al Wari, LSE
Professor Nadje Al-Ali, SOAS, University of London
Priscilla Alamos, Catholic University of Louvain
Dr Rasmus Alenius Boserup, Danish Institute for international Studies
Leen Al-Habash, University of Exeter
Dr Ahmed Ali, AUS
Dr Duha Al-Kuwari, LSE Middle East Centre
Louis Allday, Business Intelligence Unit – MENA at HSBC
Larissa Alles , University of St. Andrews
Tamara Al-Om, University of Exeter
Professor Madawi Al-Rasheed, King’s College London
Dr Atef Alshaer, SOAS
Dr Roham Alvandi, LSE
Andrew Amunson
Dr Amnon Aran, City University London
Dr Sedef Arat-Koc, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
Constance Arminjon, CEIFR/EHESS
Dr Lana Asfour, Freelance Journalist
Professor Richard Auty, Lancaster University
Peggy Awad, The American University in Dubai
Dr Bassem Awadallah, Islamic Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Professor Mustafa Aydin, Kadir Has University
Dr Heba Aziz, German University of Technology
Ummuhan Bardak, European Union – ETF
Dr Judy Barsalou, American University in Cairo
Hannes Baumann, King’s College London
Dr Sara Bazoobandi, Roubini Global Economics
Dr Claire Beaugrand, Ifpo
Carly Beckerman-Boys, University of Birmingham
Theodora Beckett
Dr Brian Beeley, Open University
Francesco Belcastro, University of St. Andrews
Dr Lisa Bernasek, University of Southampton
Daniele Bolazzi, King’s College London
Erik Borg, Uppsala University, Department of Linguistics and Philology
Dr Charis Boutieri, King’s College London
Andrew Bowen, LSE
Dr Noel Brehony, Menas Associates
Dr Lia Brynjar, Forsvarets forskningsinstitutt (FFI)
Dr John Canning, University of Southampton
Giovanni Ludovico Carlino, University of Reading – Italian Center for the Study of Political Islam
Fernando Carvajal, University of Exeter
Dr Francesco Cavatorta, Dublin City University
Rosy Cave, Saferworld
Dr John Chalcraft, LSE
Simon Chamberlin, FCO
Dr Chérine Chams El Dine, Cairo University and University of Exeter
Zaki Chehab, ArabsToday.net
Phoebe Clapham, Yale University Press
Carol Clisby
Emily Clise
Dr Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, LSE
Morgane Colleau, University of Exeter
Richard Cowley
Michael Crawford, Standard Chartered Bank
James Crawford, LSE
Aaron Crist
Guillemette Crouzet, Paris Sorbonne
Dr Susanne Dahlgren, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
Dr Katerina Dalacoura, LSE
Professor Erin Daly, Widener University School of Law
Dr Hakim Darbouche, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
Maria D’Aria
Chloe De Preneuf, Legatum Institute
Muawiya Derhalli, BRISMES
Dr Marco Di Donato, University of Genova – Italian Centre for the Study of Political Islam (CISIP)
Christopher Dickey, Newsweek
Professor James Dickins, University of Leeds
Christopher Dietrich, The University of Texas at Austin
Filippo Dionigi, LSE
Dr Toby Dodge, LSE
Marc Donahue
Dr Vincent Durac, University College Dublin
Paolo D’Urbano, SOAS
Michael Dwyer, Hurst Publishers
Dr Katherine E. Hoffman , Northwestern University
Penelope Andre Eklund, The Elders
Oroub El-Abed, SOAS
Dr Joed Elich, Brill
Dr Ziad Elmarsafy, University of York
Dr Glynne Evans, Olive Group Ltd
Mona Farag, University of Exeter
Michael Farquhar, LSE
Ali Fathollah-Nejad, SOAS & University of Münster
Silvia Ferabolli, SOAS
Dr Darren Fisher
Dr Ingvild Flaskerud, University of Bergen
Dr Kieran Flynn, Trinity College Dublin
Dr Ingo Forstenlechner, Federal Demographic Council, Abu Dhabi and United Arab Emirates University
Professor Benjamin Fortna, SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East
Matthew Frankel
David French, The Alexandria Trust
Tine Gade, Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris
Dr Luisa Gandolfo, University of York
Dr Gervasio Gennaro, The British University in Egypt/Macquarie Universi
Dr Alan George, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford
Pierre Gerber
Professor Fawaz Gerges, LSE Middle East Centre
Jenny Gessler, SOAS
Mr Bryan Gibson, LSE
Professor Richard Gillespie, University of Liverpool
Oguzhan Goksel, Durham University
Chris Green, Routledge
Dr Cengiz Gunes, The Open University
Dr Jeroen Gunning, Durham University
Dr Stacey Gutkowski, MEMS, King’s College London
Dr Fanar Haddad, Queen Mary, University of London
Saleem Haddad, Saferworld
Roger Hardy, LSE
Professor William Harris, University of Otago
Tom Hart
Louise Haysey, BRISMES
Dr Thomas Hegghammer, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment
Dr H.A Hellyer, Gallup
Alexander Henley, Manchester University
Dr Steffen Hertog, LSE
Isabelle Hesse, University of York
Martin Hetherington, FCO
Professor Allan Hill, Harvard University, School of Public Health
Lindsey Hilsum, Channel 4
Prof Raymond Hinnebusch, University of St. Andrews
Dr Wai Yip Ho, Hong Kong Institute of Education
Dr Clemens Hoffmann, University of Sussex
Dr Shabnam Holliday, Plymouth University
Professor Rosemary Hollis, City University London
Nick Holroyd, Berkshire Academic Press
Dr Maria Holt, University of Westminster
Dr Jasim Husain,
Professor Ronak Husni,
Dr Cherine Hussein, Sussex University
Perla Issa, Exeter University
Dr Fatima Issawi, LSE
Jane Jackman, Durham University
Seerwan Jafar
Peyman Jafari, Leiden University
Elisabeth Jaquette, Columbia University
Saad Jawad, LSE Middle East Centre
Whiting Joe, Routledge Middle East and Islamic studies (Books)
Mohammadreza Kalantari, Royal Holloway University of London
Dr Elisabeth Kendall, Oxford University (Pembroke)
Ari Kerkkänen, The Finnish Institute in the Middle East
Neil Ketchley, LSE
Salah Khalil, The Alexandria Trust
Dr Joe Khalil, Northwestern University in Qatar
Dr John King, Secretary for Algerian Studies
Dr Yasemin Koc, British Council
Alexander Kolbitsch , University of Wales, Trinity St. David
Farideh Koohi-Kamali, Palgrave Macmillan
Christian Kornblum, German Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Dr Nikolay Kozhanov, Institute of the Middle East
Dr Hendrik Kraetzschmar , University of Leeds
Dennis Kumetat, LSE/German Foreign Office
Dr Samuel J. Kuruvilla, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA)
Zineb Lalaouine, Society for Algerian Studies
Adam Leary, Routledge Middle Eastern studies (Journals)
Derek Leatherdale, HSBC
Natalia Lechmanova, Standard Chartered Bank
Margherita Leone, European Parliament
Dr Pietro Longo, University of Naples “L’Orientale”, Italian Centre for the Study of Political Islam
Olivia Luce, University of Oxford
Rachel Lustig, LSE
Rawan Maayeh
Nawara Mahfou
Dr Lanver Mak, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London
Dr Adeel Malik, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies/ Oxford University
Silvia Marchionne, World Bank
Hussein Marei, University of Exeter
Fouad Gehad Marei, Durham University
Professor Ulrika Mårtensson, NTNU
Robert Mason, University of Exeter
Dr Dina Matar, SOAS
Dr Toby Matthiesen, University of Cambridge
Barry Maydom, University of Oxford
Dr Francesco Mazzucotelli , Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Victor McFarland, Yale University
Dr Una McGahern, Durham University
Dr Daniel Meier, Centre for Lebanese Studies
Dr Sonja Mejcher-Atassi, American University of Beirut
Professor Nuray Mert, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Istanbul University
Professor Guenter Meyer, CERAW, University of Mainz
Professor Rory Miller, King’s College London
Professor Beverley Milton-Edwards, Queen’s University Belfast
Dr Ashraf Mishrif, King’s College London
Dr Yukiko Miyagi, University of Durham
Dr Moojan Momen
Dr John Moreton, University of Leeds
Dr Aitemad Muhanna Matar, LSE Middle East Centre
Richard Muir, Al Tajir Trust
Dr Corinna Mullin, SOAS
Sir Alan Munro, Society for Algerian Studies
Dermot Murphy, Society for Algerian Studies
Dr Marwan Naser, LSE
Helena Nassif, University of Westminster
Petter Nesser, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI)
Professor Ian Netton, University of Exeter
Alastair Newton, Nomura International plc
Professor Tim Niblock, University of Exeter
Christopher Noble, University of Aberdeen
Professor Gerd Nonneman, Georgetown University SFS-Qatar
Dr Laudan Nooshin, City University London
Tamsine O’Riordan, Zed Books
Delphine Pagès-El Karoui, INALCO
Dr Jeremy Palmer, Assistant Professor
Pamela Park, Garnet Publishing
Dr Nigel Parsons, Massey University
Dr Reuven Paz, PRISM
Stefania Perna
James Petretta, Maplecroft
Dr Christopher Phillips, Queen Mary, University of London
Dr Thomas Pierret, University of Edinburgh
Professor Elie Podeh, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr Sandra Pogodda, University of St Andrews
William Polisano
Daniel Porter, Eurospan Group
Domenica Preysing, Otto Suhr Institute, Free University of Berlin
Damian Quinn, BBC World Service
Naysan Rafati, St. Antony’s College
Nicola Ramsey, Edinburgh University Press
Dr Andrew Rathmell, Coffey International Development
Paola Raunio, University of St Andrews
Dr Avi Raz, University of Oxford
Dr Paola Rivetti, Dublin City University
Professor Barbara Roberson, The Global Policy Institute
Nicola Robinson, University of York
Joshua Rogers, Saferworld
Caroline Ronsin, EUI
Dr Erzsébet N. Rózsa, Hungarian Institute of International Affairs
Adel Ruished, Al-Quds University
Kat Rylance, Routledge
Martin Säfström, Stockholm University
Professor Keiko Sakai, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Dr Rita Sakr, University College Dublin
Omar Saleh, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology
Dr Doha Saleh, King Saud University
Dr Ruba Salih, SOAS
Maxim Sansour, Tunisian Independent Elections Commission
Dr Søren Schmidt, Aalborg University, Denmark
Moritz Schmoll, LSE
Dr Patrick Seale
Dr Said Shehata, London Metropolitan University
Amanda Shiao
Christine Shields, Standard Chartered Bank
Tamar Shlaim, Verso
Jacqueline Shoen
Emma Sky, King’s College London
Dr Peter Sluglett, National University of Singapore
Dima Smaira, Durham Univeristy
Dr Claire Spencer, Chatham House
Professor Gareth Stansfield, University of Exeter
Dr Ewan Stein, University of Edinburgh
Dr Christian Steiner, University of Frankfurt
Yannick Sudermann, University of Edinburgh
Sahar Tabaja, Pursue Ltd
Dr Mariz Tadros, Institute of Development Studies University of Sus
Alaa Tartir, LSE
Angus Taverner, B’huth
Ross Taylor
Dr Jordi Tejel Gorgas, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Dr Andrea Teti, University of Aberdeen
Genevieve Theodorakis, LSE
Darcy Thompson, University of Aberdeen
Hassan Thuillard, IHEID, Geneva
Ahmed Tohamy, Durham University
Dr Mina Toksoz, Standard Bank
Stefano Torelli, University of Rome la Sapienza – Italian Centre for the Study of Political Islam
Professor Charles Tripp, SOAS
Dr Lorenzo Trombetta
Dr Morten Valbjørn, Aarhus University
Dr Marc Valeri, University of Exeter
Denis Volkov, University of Manchester
Yaniv Voller, LSE
Dr Frederic Volpi, University of St Andrews
Dr Helene Von Bismarck, Independent Researcher
Dr Maaike Voorhoeve, University of Amsterdam
Dr Joas Wagemakers, Radboud University Nijmegen
Carol Wagner, Emirates Foundation
Sir Harold Walker
Dr Maaike Warnaar, University of Amsterdam
Dr Ann Williams, Exeter University
Dr Alice Wilson, University of Cambridge
Frances Winfield, Eurospan Group
Dr Steffen Wippel, Zentrum Moderner Orient/ZMO
Dr Kenneth Wise, B’huth (DCRMC)
Julie Witford, Cornucopia Magazine
Clare Woodcraft, Emirates Foundation
Jinny Yan, Standard Chartered Bank
Murat Yilmaz, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Nussaibah Younis, Durham University
Dr Mohammed Zayani, Georgetown University
Tina Zintl, University of St. Andrews
Dr Yahia Zoubir, Euromed Management, Marseille
