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Jonathan Spyer is editor of the Middle East Quarterly, the Forum’s flagship publication, and director of research at the Middle East Forum. A journalist, he reports for Janes Intelligence Review, writes a column for the Jerusalem Post, and is a contributor to the Wall Street Journal and The Australian. He frequently reports from Syria and Iraq. He has a B.A. from the London School of Economics, an M.A. from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, and a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics. He is the author of two books: The Transforming Fire: The Rise of the Israel-Islamist Conflict (2010) and Days of the Fall: A Reporter’s Journey in the Syria and Iraq Wars (2017).

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Mr. Pipes is director of the Middle East Forum and a columnist at the New York Post and The Jerusalem Post. A former official in the departments of State and Defense, he has taught at the University of Chicago, Harvard University, and the U.S. Naval War College. The author of fourteen books, his most recent book is Miniatures: Views of Islamic and Middle Eastern Politics (Transaction Publishers, 2004). He is a frequent analyst on television and radio.

Michael Rubin served as editor of the Middle East Quarterly from 2004-2009. He is a resident scholar of the American Enterprise Institute, where he researches domestic politics in Iran, Iraq, and Turkey, Kurdish society, and Arab democracy. He is also a Senior Lecturer at the Naval Postgraduate School. He formerly served as a political adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. Mr. Rubin earned his undergraduate and doctoral degrees from Yale University. He has been a visiting lecturer at Hebrew University (Jerusalem), Universities of Sulaymani, Salahuddin, and Duhok (Iraqi Kurdistan), and Yale University.

Robert Wilhelm is responsible for the day-to-day management and design of the Middle East Quarterly. He spent nearly two decades as a legal editor and a decade as a practicing attorney. He has worked at the Richmond Times-Dispatch and various weekly Virginia newspapers. He holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Virginia Commonwealth University and earned his law degree at the Antonin Scalia Law School (formerly the George Mason University School of Law). Contact: Wilhelm@meforum.org.

Ali Alfoneh
Arab Gulf States Institute

Patrick Clawson
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy

David Cook
Rice University

Martin Kramer
Tel Aviv University

Timur Kuran
Duke University

Habib C. Malik
Foundation for Human and Humanitarian Rights in Lebanon

Michael Mandelbaum
Johns Hopkins University, SAIS

James Phillips
The Heritage Foundation

Dennis Ross
Washington, D.C.

James R. Russell
Harvard University

Franck Salameh
Boston College

Philip Carl Salzman
McGill University

Saliba Sarsar
Monmouth University

Robert B. Satloff
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Jonathan Schanzer
Foundation for Defense of Democracies

Kemal Silay
Indiana University

Lee Smith
Washington, D.C

Kenneth W. Stein
Emory University