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Bassam Haddad is Director of the Middle East and Islamic Studies Program and Associate Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. He is the author of Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience (Stanford University Press, 2011). Bassam serves as Founding Editor of the Arab Studies Journal and the Knowledge Production Project. He is co-producer/director of the award-winning documentary film, About Baghdad, and director of the series Arabs and Terrorism. Bassam is Co-Founder/Editor of Jadaliyya Ezine and Executive Director of the Arab Studies Institute. He serves on the Board of the Arab Council for the Social Sciences and is Executive Producer of Status Audio Magazine. Bassam is Co-Project Manager for the Salon Syria Project. Twitter: @4Bassam 

Mouin Rabbani is a researcher and analyst specialising in the contemporary Middle East and Co-Editor of Jadaliyya. He has previously served as Principal Political Affairs Officer with the Office of the UN Special Envoy for Syria, Head of Middle East with Crisis Management Initiative/Martti Ahtisaari Centre, Senior Middle East Analyst and Special Advisor on Israel-Palestine with the International Crisis Group, and Project Director with the Association of Netherlands Municipalities. He is Senior Fellow with the Institute for Palestine Studies, Contributing Editor of Middle East Report, Associate Fellow of the European Council on Foreign Relations, and Policy Advisor to Al-Shabaka - The Palestinian Policy Network. A graduate of Tufts University and Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Rabbani has published, presented and commented widely on Middle East issues, including for most major global media.

Sama'a Al-Hamdani is an independent writer, researcher, and analyst focusing on Yemeni politics and woman affairs. In the past year, she has provided Yemen analysis to the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). Her work has been published in Almonitor, the LawFare blog (Brookings), The National (UAE), MENAsource (The Atlantic Council Blog), Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, Fikra Forum (The Middle East Institute Journal), Quartz Magazine, Yemen Observer, Yemen Times, and several other prominent publications and academic journals. She has written for the blog Yemeniaty.com since 2010. 

She is a regular expert commentator on Yemeni political affairs for major international media outlets including CNN International, CNN America, BBC World Service, Al-Jazeera English, Al-Jazeera America, Huffington Post, RRTV American, RTTV international, France 24, Chinese CCTV, Canadian CTV, and Alhurra news. She has been a guest on NPR Radio, BBC World Service, Voice of Russia Radio, Sputnik Radio, and Follow the Money podcasts. She has spoken as a Yemen expert at several institutions such as Chatham House and Brookings Institute.

Twitter: @SamaaAlhamdani

Samia Errazouki is a Jadaliyya co-editor and journalist. She previously worked as a Morocco-based journalist and research associate with Cambridge University covering Moroccan media. Samia is an alumna of both George Mason University's Global Affairs program and Georgetown University's Master of Arts and Arab Studies program.

Hibba Abugideiri is Associate Professor of History and former Director of the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies at Villanova University, specializing on women in Islam, political thought, and histories of gender. Before coming to Villanova, she was Assistant Professor of History, Honors, and International Affairs at the George Washington University. Receiving her PhD in Middle East Studies from Georgetown University, she also earned her Master's Degree in Arab Studies from Georgetown. She is known for her book, Gender and the Making of Modern Medicine in Colonial Egypt, which examines the impact of colonial medicine on Egyptian gender relations. She is the senior editor of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women.