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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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Michael Rubin, director of policy analysis at the Middle East Forum, 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 fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and 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.

Frieda Fuchs has conducted extensive research on radical movements in Africa and Asia, exploring the political, social, and ideological factors that contribute to violent politics. Her scholarly work has been published in prominent academic journals, including Theory and Society and Politics & Society. Fuchs has taught at The College of Wooster and Oberlin College, where she offered courses in comparative politics, democratic development, dictatorship, and social movements. She holds a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University, where she specialized in European politics with a focus on the comparative history of protective labor standards in Britain and France, and an M.A. in African Politics from UCLA. Contact: fuchs@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 Institute for Near East Policy

James R. Russell
Emeritus Mashots Professor of Armenian Studies at 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
Tablet Magazine

Kenneth W. Stein
Emory University

Hussein Aboubakr Mansour
Milstein Fellow at the Middle East Forum

Saeid Golkar
UC Foundation Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga