Expert Contributors
Takashi Mitsuka
Deputy Managing Director of the Japan Cooperation Center for the Middle East (JCCME).
Dr. Alon Levkowitz
Senior lecturer and the Chair of Social Science and Civics department at Beit Berl College.
Professor Michaël Tanchum
Non-resident fellow in the Economics and Energy Programme at the Middle East Institute (MEI) and at the Centre for Strategic Policy Implementation at Başkent University.
Thisanka Siripala
Journalist specializing in Japanese business, economic policy, technology and social problems.
Dr. Selçuk Çolakoğlu
Founding Director of the Turkish Center for Asia-Pacific Studies
Dr. Christoph Bluth
Professor of International Relations and Security in the Department of Peace Studies and International Development at the University of Bradford.
Fatemeh Aman
Non-resident senior fellow at the Middle East Institute.
Professor of West Asia and Philippine External Relations at the Asian Center of the University of the Philippines
Dr. John Calabrese
Director of the Middle East-Asia Project (MAP), Middle East Institute
Adi Imsirovic
Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
S. Suha Cubukcuoglu
Geopolitical strategist working as a non-resident contributor for the Turkish Heritage Organization in Washington D.C.
Marwan Safar Jalani
Rhodes Syria Scholar, pursuing a Master’s in Comparative Government at the University of Oxford.
Silvia Colombo
Senior Fellow in the Mediterranean, Middle East and Africa programme at the Rome-based Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI).
Aljoscha Albrecht
Research Assistant at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin
Sarah Henkel
Policy Advisor on foreign affairs at the European Parliament.
Alex Vatanka
Director of the Iran program and a senior fellow at the Frontier Europe Program at the Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C.
Louis Dugit-Gros
Visiting Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
Judy Dempsey
Nonresident senior fellow at Carnegie Europe and editor in chief of the Strategic Europe blog.
Douglas Ollivant
Associate Professor at HSE University in Moscow; Senior research fellow at the Institute of African Studies of the Russian Academy of Science.
Alison Pargeter
Senior Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Middle Eastern Studies at King’s College London; Associate Fellow at RUSI
David W. Lesch
Ewing Halsell Distinguished Professor of History at Trinity University in San Antonio, TX, USA.
Dr Leonid Issaev
Associate Professor at HSE University in Moscow; Senior research fellow at the Institute of African Studies of the Russian Academy of Science.
Dr Michael Robbins
Project Director of Arab Barometer at Princeton University
David Butter
Analyst of political and economic affairs in the Middle East and North Africa; Associate Fellow at Chatham House.
Kamal Alam
Syrian Affairs Analyst and Teacher of Syrian and Turkish Military History at Various Military Staff Colleges
Adel Bakawan
Associate Research Fellow at Institut français des relations internationales
Dr. Roby C. Barrett
Scholar with the Middle East Institute, former Foreign Service Officer
Dr. Tobias Borck
Research Fellow for Middle East Security Studies at the International Security Studies department at RUSI.
Rt Hon. Alistair Burt
Former Minister of State for the Middle East at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office and Department for International Development (2017-19)
Dr. Guy Burton
Adjunct Professor of International Relations at Vesalius College in Brussels
Dr. Clemens Chay
Research Fellow at the Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore
Dr. Albadr SS Alshateri
Former Professor at the UAE National Defense College in Abu Dhabi
Dr. Barry Colfer
Visiting Fellow at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Melanie Dunn
Former Speechwriter and Communications Specialist to Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser of Qatar
James Drummond
Former Middle East Correspondent of the Financial Times
Mary Fitzgerald
Independent Researcher and Associate Fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation, King’s College London
Ryan Fletcher
Research Associate with Stimson’s Conventional Defense Program.
Dr. Dalia Ghanem
Resident Scholar at the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center
Sabina Henneberg
Senior Analyst at Libya-Analysis
Awssan Kamal
Development Professional and NGO Advisor
Ali Kassem
Ph.D. Researcher and Doctoral Tutor, University of Sussex
Dr. Nikolay Kozhanov
Research Associate Professor at the Gulf Studies Center of Qatar University and Consulting Fellow at Chatham House
Dr. Diana Galeeva
Academic Visitor to St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford
Merissa Khurma
Program Manager of the Middle East Program at the Wilson Center
Dr. Christian Koch
Project Director with the Gulf Research Center Foundation
Dr. Peter Krause
Associate Professor of Political Science at Boston College
Richard Makepeace
Former British Ambassador to Sudan; Registrar of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
Zaki Mehchy
Senior Consulting Fellow, Middle East and North Africa Programme, Chatham House
Prof. Mohamed Lamine Mestek-Yahia
Scholar and Head of Department of Political Science at Djilali Bounaama Khemis Miliana University, Algeria
Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahayan
Minister of Tolerance and Coexistence, United Arab Emirates
Dr. Niu Xinchun
Research Professor and Director of the CICIR Institute of Middle East Studies
Callum Printsmith
Researcher for the Anglo-Omani Society
Hanan Salah
Senior Libya Researcher at Human Rights Watch
Dr. Annelle Sheline
Research Fellow for the Middle East at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
Prof. Paul Stevens
Distinguished Fellow at Chatham House
Rachel Stohl
Vice President and Director of the Conventional Defense Program at the Stimson Center
Sir Roger Tomkys
Former British Ambassador to Bahrain and Syria
Aydın Ulu
MENAF Current Affairs Analyst
Robert Clark
Postgraduate Researcher at King’s College London War Studies Department
Dr. Jaafar Bouzomita
Middle East Analyst
Nora Noralla
Egyptian human rights researcher and consultant
Shivan Fazil
Middle East and North Africa Programme, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute – SIPRI
Peyman Asadzade
School of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University
Professor Steven Kaplan
Gail Levin de Nur Professor (Emeritus) of Comparative Religion, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Paul S. Rowe
Professor of Political and International Studies, Trinity Western University
Fiona McCallum-Guiney
Senior Lecturer, School of International Relations, University of St. Andrews
Zainab Mehdi
Researcher and Freelance Journalist specialising in governance, development, and conflict in the Middle East and North Africa region
Professor Dawn Chatty, FBA
Emeritus Professor in Anthropology and Forced Migration and former Director of the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford
Dr. Lynn Rose
American University of Iraq, Sulaimani
Dr. Fariba Parsa
Nonresident Scholar, Iran Program, Middle East Institute
Dr. Courtney Freer
Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow at Emory College in the Middle East and South Asian Studies Department
Dr. Mahmood Monshipouri
San Francisco State University
Dr. Javad Heiran-Nia
Director of the Persian Gulf Studies at the Center for Scientific Research and Middle East Strategic Studies