Featured Contributors
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. Jaafar Bouzomita
Middle East Analyst
Rt. Honourable 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