Iraq correspondent, Financial Times
I have lived and worked as a journalist in the Arab world for the past 15 years. I moved to Egypt in 1993, and in 1997, I helped found the Cairo Times, which at the time was one of the region's few genuinely independent news magazines in any language. Throughout much of this time Egypt experienced a low-level Islamist insurgency, which caused significant casualties and economic damage before colla...
Middle East Specialist and Former Washington Post Correspondent
David B. Ottaway received a BA from Harvard, magna cum laude, in 1962 and a PhD from Columbia University in 1972. He worked 35 years for The Washington Post as a foreign correspondent in the Middle East, Africa and Southern Europe and later as a national security and investigative reporter in Washington before retiring in 2006. He has won numerous awards for his reporting at home and abroad and wa...
Marina Ottaway is a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center and a long-time analyst of political transformations in Africa, the Balkans, and the Middle East. She is working on a project at the Wilson Center about the countries of the Arab Spring and Iraq. Ottaway joined the Wilson Center after 14 years at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, during which she played a central role in...
William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Anthropology, Princeton University, and Adjunct Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Although originally trained to do anthropological fieldwork in Indonesia, the civil war in that country necessitated my diversion to work in North Africa. As I began to study the forms of social organization in a small city of Morocco and the surrounding countryside I became particularly interested in the ways in which people arranged their relationships with one another and how much the cultural...
Islamic Affairs correspondent for The Washington Post
Mr. Shadid, Islamic Affairs correspondent for The Washington Post and a recent recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, will be working on a book entitled Baghdadat: Iraq's Capital Before and After War--an exploration of the city, its changes and its future after occupation. Prior to joining The Washington Post, Mr. Shadid worked for The Boston Globe, where he covered diplomacy...
Lawyer
Falah Shakarm is a lawyer and currently the Iraqi Project Coordinator for WADI, an international NGO working for empowering civil society and human rights, where he manages projects about women and youth and campaign to stop female genital mutilation on an Iraq and Middle East level. In 2013 he wrote the first draft of law for combating FGM which was submitted to the Iraqi Parliaments. Falah serve...
Assistant Professor of Arab Politics, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
I am an Assistant Professor at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University where I teach courses on different aspects of Middle East politics. Most of my research has focused on Egyptian politics and society, and I am originally from Egypt. Before coming to Georgetown I spent a year at New York University's Center for Near Eastern Studies, where I served as Director of Gradua...
Co-Founder, Aie Serve
Abbas Sibai is from Beirut Lebanon, part of Leaders of Democracy Fellows Program at Maxwell School, Syracuse University NY. He is passionate about creating new initiatives related to active youth participation, environment and health issues. Lately he developed "Live Love Beirut" a crowd source platform for youth mobilization in Lebanon. He is also Program Manager and Communications cons...
I have lived and worked as a journalist in the Arab world for the past 15 years. I moved to Egypt in 1993, and in 1997, I helped found the Cairo Times, which at the time was one of the region's few genuinely independent news magazines in any language. Throughout much of this time Egypt experienced a low-level Islamist insurgency, which caused significant casualties and economic damage before colla...
David B. Ottaway received a BA from Harvard, magna cum laude, in 1962 and a PhD from Columbia University in 1972. He worked 35 years for The Washington Post as a foreign correspondent in the Middle East, Africa and Southern Europe and later as a national security and investigative reporter in Washington before retiring in 2006. He has won numerous awards for his reporting at home and abroad and wa...
Marina Ottaway is a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center and a long-time analyst of political transformations in Africa, the Balkans, and the Middle East. She is working on a project at the Wilson Center about the countries of the Arab Spring and Iraq. Ottaway joined the Wilson Center after 14 years at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, during which she played a central role in...
Although originally trained to do anthropological fieldwork in Indonesia, the civil war in that country necessitated my diversion to work in North Africa. As I began to study the forms of social organization in a small city of Morocco and the surrounding countryside I became particularly interested in the ways in which people arranged their relationships with one another and how much the cultural...
Mr. Shadid, Islamic Affairs correspondent for The Washington Post and a recent recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, will be working on a book entitled Baghdadat: Iraq's Capital Before and After War--an exploration of the city, its changes and its future after occupation. Prior to joining The Washington Post, Mr. Shadid worked for The Boston Globe, where he covered diplomacy...
I am an Assistant Professor at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University where I teach courses on different aspects of Middle East politics. Most of my research has focused on Egyptian politics and society, and I am originally from Egypt. Before coming to Georgetown I spent a year at New York University's Center for Near Eastern Studies, where I served as Director of Gradua...