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Sana Abdallah is a Jordanian journalist who works for UPI in Amman. She has been the Jordan correspondent for Middle East International since 1995. (UPI, unfortunately, was bought in 2000 by the right-wing Unificatio ...

Ibrahim Abu Lughod (1929-2001) was born in Jaffa where his father was a metal manufacturer. He spent most of his life in the struggle for Palestinian rights. In 1948 he and his family took refuge in Nablus and then Amman. In 1950, he went to the United States where he received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Illinois and a PhD in Political Science from Princeton Unive ...

Salman Abu-Sitta (1938-) was 9 years old when he was forced, with the rest of his family, to flee the family home in Beir al-Sabe' (Beersheba) District in 1948. Later, he graduated from the University of Cairo and received a PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of London. Dr. Salman Abu-Sitta is a former member of the Palestine National Council (for 20 years). He is founder of the ...

Ali Hasan Abunimah is a Palestinian-American media critic. He is vice-president of the Arab American Action Network, a Chicago-based social service and advocacy organization. His media commentaries on the Middle East have appeared widely. He ...

Karen Koning AbuZayd was appointed head on UNRWA in June 2005. Her term ended on December 2009. Upon departing AbuZayd relates ...

Eqbal Ahmad was a peace activist and scholar. He was born to a family of wealthy Muslim landowners in Bihar, India. In 1947, he left with his brothers for the newly created state of Pakistan. He was active in the civil rights movement and the anti-Vietnam War movement in the United States. Here are some opinions about him: "Inevitably, reading Eqbal Ahmad's words evok ...

Susan M. Akram is an Associate Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law (BUSL). She is a member of the Legal Advisory Board of the Council for Palestinian Restitution and Repatriation (CPRR), an organization which declares that "every Palestinian has a legitimate, individual right to re ...

Musa Al-Hindi is a Palestinian refugee from Acre, born and raised in Lebanon and active with Al-Awda, the Palestinian Right to Return Coalition. He spent most of his formative years amidst the squalor and deprivation of Bourj al-Barajneh, a densely populated refugee camp in Beirut. ...

Khalil al-Sakakini (1880-1953), a Greek-Orthodox Palestinian writer and educator, was born in Jerusalem. At a young age, he emigrated to the United States where he failed as a businessman. He returned to Palestine in 1908 when the Young Turk Revolt broke out; became a leader and organizer of the struggle against the patriarchate; elected member of the delegation to Istanbul in 1909 to protest ...

Dr. Haydar 'Abd al-Shafi (1919-2007), also transliterated as Haidar Abdel-Shafi, was born in Gaza, one of the six children of Sheikh Muheiddin Abdel-Shafi. He led the Palestinian delegation at the Madrid peace conference in 1991. Attended primary school in Gaza; secondary education as a boarder at the Arab Col ...

Maher Al-Taher is the chairman of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. ...

M. Shahid Alam is a Professor of Economics at Northeastern University, Boston. Professor Alam holds a BA from the University of Dhaka, MA from the University of Karachi, and Ph.D. from the University of Western Ontario. He may be reached at m ...

Professor Ammiel Alcalay was born and raised in Boston and is of Bosnian origin. He teaches at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center in New York, and is the author of numerous books on Arab Jews and Levantine culture. He signed the RETURN statement. ...

Jean Allain is an assistant professor of Public International Law at the American University in Cairo. He is a member of the editorial board of World Editorial and International Law, a journal whose editorial board is chaired by ...

Dr.[Abdel-Moneim Said] Aly is director of Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies (ACPSS) in Cairo. His areas of specialization include the Middle East conflict, arms control, European integration, and Egyptian national security. Education B.A., Cairo University, 1970 M.A., Northern Illinois University, U.S.A, 1979 &nb ...

Hani Al-Masri is (2004) a prominent commentator for the Palestinian newspaper Al-Ayyam He is (2009) head of the Bada'el (Alternatives) think-tank, the Palestinian Center for Media and Research, in Ramallah ...

Khalid Amayreh (b. 1957 Hebron) is a Palestinian journalist based in Dura, in the Hebron district. He did his university degrees in the United States: BA in Journalism at University of Oklahoma, 1982; MA in Journalism, University of Southern Illinois, 1983. For a long time, his life was not made any easier by the fac ...

Lamis Andoni is a Palestinian-American journalist. Originally from Bethlehem, she is a free lance journalist with an international reputation, publishing her articles in Middle East International ; Le Monde Diplomatique ; Jordan Times ; Al-Ahram , Al-Hayat ; Journal of Palestine Studies , and various other publications. ...

Bulent Aras is a visiting fellow at the European Union Institute for Security Studies, Paris and associate professor of international relations at Fatih University, Istanbul. ...

Alia Arasoughly is a filmmaker, curator, film theorist and sociologist of culture, based in Ramallah. She grew up in Lebanon, lived in the United States and moved to Palestine after the Oslo Accords. She has lectured internationally on issues of post-colonialism, gender and national identity in the Arab film production. She curated and directed the famous Liberation and Alienation ...

Huwaida Arraf is cofounder of the International Solidarity Movement. A Catholic Palestinian American from Detroit, Arraf and her Jewish American partner, Adam Shapiro (an ...

Naseer Aruri is Chancellor Professor (emeritus) of Political Science, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. He is president of Trans-Arab Research Institute in Boston. He is the author of ...

Negar Azimi is (2002) the curator of the Van Leo Collection at the American University in Cairo. ...

Joharah Baker has led (2004) the Palestine Report project for five years, through its transition into an internet magazine. She occasionally represents the Palestine Report in news interviews, while also translating and editing reports for Palestinian organizations and international NGOs such as USAID and the ...

Gabriel Baramki is the former administrator of Birzeit University; he replaced the Hanna Nasir president who was exiled by the Israelis; no one at Bir Zeit has taken on the title of "president" since then. He is the son of Andoni Baramki, ...

Mustafa Barghouti (born 1954) is the director of the Health, Development, Information, and Policy Institute in Ramallah. He was a member of the Palestinian negotiating team to the peace talks and was on the steering committee to the multi-laterals. He is spokesman for the Palestinian National Initiative, a coalition for ...

Omar Barghouti is an independent Palestinian researcher, commentator and human rights activist. He is a founding member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI). He holds a Masters degree in electrical engineering from Columbia University, NY. He contributed to the philosophical volume, "Controversies and Subjectivity" (John Be ...

Ramzy Baroud is a Palestinian-American journalist and is the editor and instigator of Palestine Chronicle (an important online information source). Baroud was born and raised in a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. His columns have been published, translated or reviewed in important newspapers such as the Christian Science Monitor (USA), International Herald Tribune , ...

Gabriela Becker is a researcher and writer from the US currently (Spring 2006) based in Occupied Jerusalem. She has been visiting Palestine on and off for the past four years and has worked with a number of Palestinian organizations in the West Bank and Gaza. ...

Shiko Behar's family is of Egyptian Jewish origin. Shiko is the first member of the family to be born in Palestine/Israel. A founder of Tzah and a leader of Hila (the Public Committee for Education in the Underprivileged Neighbourhoods, which works with activist parents in an attempt to reveal the distortions about Mizrahi history taught in Israeli schools), Shiko Behar, has written ...

Azmi Bishara is a Palestinian citizen of Israel and a member of the Knesset. He was born in Nazareth to a Christian family in 1956. He studied at Humboldt University in East Germany. He was senior lecturer and head of the Philosophy Department at Bir-Zeit University, and senior researcher at the Van-Leer Institute in Jerusalem. He is also a columnist and published author. Bishar ...

Marwan Bishara says of himself that "Growing up in Nazareth, an Arab in a Jewish state, a secular Christian in a traditional Muslim society, a leftist in a Baptist school, I learned firsthand how managing ideological, religious and national differences helps us evolve peacefully. Succumbing to them generates fundamentalism andantagonism. Applying brute force to overcome them-as Israel, m ...

Sue Blackwell (here is her non-university personal home page) teaches on the Language Foundation module and the modules on Development and Variation in English, and Bilingualism at the University of Birmingham. ...

Haim Bresheeth, an Israeli peace activist and academic (at the Department of Cultural Studies, University of East London, UK), is co-editor of The Gulf War and the New World Order, and co-author of ...

Gro Harlem Brundtland is a long-term environmentalist and former prime minister of Norway who is (2002) director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO). ...

Caoimhe Butterly is an Irish volunteer who, in 2002, spent many months living in the West Bank, mostly in Jenin Camp. On 21 November 2002, she was shot at close-range by an Israeli sniper who she saw aiming his gun at her from an armoured personnel carrier (APC). Since she was deported from the West Bank by the Israelis, she has spent time as a volunteer in Iraq and, most recently ( ...

Does he really need a description? Well, it may not be generally known that Chomsky was born in Philadelphia, the son of William (Zev) Chomsky, who had migrated from Russia in 1913 (to escape conscription into the Czarist army) and, after working at menial jobs in Baltimore, was able to get through Johns Hopkins University before moving to Philadelphia. He had a particular passion for resea ...

William Ramsey Clark is a former US Attorney-General. Clark was born in Dallas, Texas in 1927. After being admitted to the Texas bar in 1951, he practiced law in Dallas for a decade before being appointed Assistant U.S. Attorney General in charge of the lands division. In 1965 he became Deputy U.S. Attorney General, then acting U.S. Attorney General in October 1966. In 1967, Clark was ...

Dominic Coldwell received an M.Phil in Modern Middle Eastern Studies from St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, in May 2003 ...

Jonathan Cook is a British journalist who writes for the Guardian and the Observer newspapers in London and for Al-Ahram Weekly. In late 2003, he married Sally Azzam, a Palestinian citizen of Israel from Nazareth who works for a rape crisis center and a women's refuge. In Summer 2004, he launched ...

Benjamin Counsell was (2003) communications officer for Al- Awda, the Palestinian Right for Return Coalition (UK) and was (2004) a member of the Executive Committee of Arab Media Watch. ...

Hamid Dabashi (see, also, here) is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies, the chair of the MEALAC department, and the director of Graduate Studies at the Center for Comparative Literature and Socie ...

Omar Dajani is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento. He served as legal advisor to the PLO from 1999 to 2001 ...

Seif Da'Na, an assistant professor of Sociology and International Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, is treasurer of the Trans-Arab Research Institute. In addition to sociological research in the fields of social theory and sociology of the Environment, he is the author of many articles, book chapters, ...

Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008) was born in Al-Birwah, near Acre in Palestine, and grew up under Israeli occupation to become the world’s best-known Palestinian poet. He published his first collection of poetry in 1960. In 1981, he started the literary quarterly Al-Karmel. In 1995, his book Memory for Forgetfulness (trans ...

Uri Davis (1943-), a Jewish citizen of Israel who grew up in Kfar Shmariyahu, was elected in August 2009 to the Revolutionary Council of Fatah, the biggest grouping ...

Curtis Francis J Doebbler is an American international human rights lawyer who has lived or worked in more than 50 countries. His latest book (2004) is International Human Rights Law: Cases and Materials . He was (2002) Professor of Human Rights Law at American University in Cairo. He had served as an advisor to the Taliban on the laws of war. He has provided legal advice ...

Ian Douglas is (2005) visiting professor of political science at An-Najah National University in Palestine. Previously Douglas was assistant professor of political science at The American University in Cairo. He has lived in the Middle East since September 2001 and has travelled widely, researching in ...

Abdul-Aziz Duwaik is a member of Hamas and (2006) speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council. ...

Paul Eisen, an anti-Zionist British Jew based in London, is a director of Deir Yassin Remembered. ...

Khalil El-Anani is a political analyst with Al-Siyasa Al-Dawliya magazine published by Al-Ahram. ...

Taghreed El-Khodary writes for Al-Ahram Weekly. She is also the Gaza correspondent for the New York Times ...

Nawal El-Saadawi is a leading Egyptian feminist, sociologist, medical doctor and militant writer on Arab women's problems. She is one of the most widely translated contemporary Egyptian writers, with her work available in twelve languages. See ...

Emad Fawzi El-Shueibi is a professor of political science at Damascus University and director of the Centre for Strategic Data and Studies. ...

Amr El-Zant is an Egyptian physicist who was a research fellow at the Israel Institute of Technology (1996-2000) and is currently (2003) at the California Institute of Technology. He is a member of the Cairo Peace Society. ...

Marc H. Ellis is University Professor of American and Jewish Studies at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Ellis is a Jewish theologian specializing in modern Judaism and post-Holocaust thought. He was (2002) on the board of Deir Yassin Remembered and of the ...

Sharif S. Elmusa is an associate professor of political science at the American University in Cairo. ...

Dr. Samera Esmeir teaches in the Rhetoric Department at the University of California in Berkeley. A former lawyer, she received her Ph.D. in Law and Society from New York University. She is on the editorial committee of Middle East Report. She was the co-editor and co-f ...

John L. Esposito is Professor of Religion and International Affairs and of Islamic Studies at Georgetown University. He is the Founding Director of the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding: History and International Affairs at Georgetown University and Vice-Chair of the ...

Mohalhel Fakih reports from the Lebanon for several organizations, including Al-Ahram Weekly, Middle East Times. Some of his work for Future TV (a Lebanese owned and operated company founded in 1993) has been broadcast by CNN. ...

Nader Fergani is (2005) the director of Almishkat Research Centre, and the lead author of the Arab Human Development Report . ...

Dr. Nader Fergany, a socio-economist , is the director of Almishkat Research Centre in Cairo, and the lead author of the Arab Human Development Report. ...

Benita Ferrero-Waldner used to be the Austrian foreign minister, and is (2007) EU Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighborhood Policy. Adam Primor, in Ha'aretz , wrote of her: During her term as foreign minister, they said in Jerusalem, she positioned Austria as one of ...

Paul Findley is a former (1961-83) Congressman from Illinois and author of "They Dare to Speak Out: People and Institutions Confront Israel's Lobby." ...

Born in Maidstone, Kent, and educated at Lancaster University and Trinity College, Dublin, Robert Fisk, a correspondent first for The Times of London, now works for The Independent of London. He has lived in Beirut since the mid-1970s and, during the unstable years was one of the last Western jou ...

Australian journalist from Sydney but based in the Middle East. I have been working in the Middle East for a number of years, including, Cairo, Jerusalem, Beirut, West Bank and Gaza and travelled extensively to other countries in the region. I have also worked in Africa. ...

Dr. Emad Gad is s amember of the Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies (ACPSS). He is editor-in-chief of Mokhtarat Israelia [Israeli Selections], a monthly journal published by the Al-Ahram Centre for Political and Strategic Studies, and secretary-general of the non- governmenta ...

George Galloway was Labour MP for Glasgow Kelvin until he was expelled from the party. He then sat as an MP for the Respect movement until the May 2005 general election. In May 2005, standing as the Respect candidate, he became MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, defeating Labour's Oona King. ...

Jeff Gates is author of Guilt by Association, Democracy at Risk and The Ownership Solution . ...

As'ad Ghanem is a Lecturer and Researcher at the University of Haifa's Department of Political Science and the Peace Research Institute in Givat Haviva. He is also a co-director of Sikui (Hebrew for "chance"; also sometimes transliterated as "Sikkuy"), an organization that works to achieve full civil rights for Palestinian citizens of Israel. He lives in Tamra, a Palestinian-Israeli town near H ...

Samir Ghattas is director of the Maqdis Centre for Political Studies in Gaza. ...

Professor Ferial J Ghazoul works in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, The American University in Cairo. ...

Neve Gordon teaches in the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University, Israel. ...

Anne Gwynne is (2003) a 65-year old grandmother from Wales who is working with the Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees in Nablus. See an article about her in The Guardian. ...

Sameh A. Habeeb is a Palestinian journalist based in Gaza. His blog; his photos ...

Emile Habibi was a Palestenian novelist, born in Haifa in August, 1921. He died at his home in Nazareth in May 1996. He shifted from one job to another early in his life. He was involved in the Palestinian resistance against the policies of the British Mandate and joined the Palestinian Communist Party in the 1940s. He began writing short stories in the 1960s, and was editor-in-chief of the Co ...

Ran HaCohen (1964-) was born in the Netherlands and grew up in Israel. He has a B.A. in Computer Science, an M.A. in Comparative Literature and a PhD in Jewish studies. He is a university teacher in Israel. (In 2002, he taught in the Department of Comparative Literature in Tel-Aviv University, which may be where he now, 2009, teaches). He also works as literary translator (from German, English ...

Elaine C. Hagopian is a Syrian-American sociologist. She is a professor emeritus of sociology at Simmons College in Boston and a former chairperson of the department. You can hear an audio interview with Elain Hagopian, broadcast on WPKN, in Bridgeport, Connecticut on 14 December 200 ...

Mohamed Hakki is a former foreign editor of Al Ahram, Egypt's largest daily newspaper, and chairman of the Egyptian state information service. ...

Denis Halliday, an Irishman, is a former Under-Secretary General at the UN who was in charge of Iraq's oil for food program. He resigned his post in protest at economic sanctions in 1998. ...

Annika Hampson Annika Hampson was Assistant to the Director of The Council for the Advancement of Arab-British Understanding before moving to work for the UNDP in Ramallah. ...

Muna Hamzeh is a Palestinian journalist and writer. Her father was a Muslim from Haifa; her mother was a Christian from Beit Jala, and both her parents were half-Palestinian, half-Lebanese. She was born in Jerusalem in 1959. In 1964, her family set up home in Amman, where Muna went to school. After graduating from high school in 1978, Muna left Amman for the United States in order to study ...

Yehudith Harel is an organisational psychologist, member of Gush Shalom and one of the founders of ICIP, the Israeli Committee for International Protection. She is also one of the founders of the recently (2003) formed Palestinian Israeli Joint Action for Peace. She is a member of the Israeli chapter of ...

Barbara Harlow, professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin, is currently (2006) chair of the Department of English and Comparative Literature, American University of Cairo. ...

Bassem Ahmed Hassan is a lecturer and programme coordinator in the Political Science Department of the British University in Egypt. Founded in 2005, this university, which has a collaboration agreement with Loughborough University in England, is mainly owned and financed by Mr. Mohamed Farid Khamis and Mr. Raed Hashem, two Egyptian businessmen. ...

Nizar Hassan, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, is a film-maker based in Nazareth. ...

Nayef Hawatmeh was born in 1937 in Salt, Jordan, to a Christian Bedouin tribe. In the 1950s and 60s, he was active in the Arab National Movement; in 1955/56 a teacher, writer and journalist in Jordan. He graduated from Beirut University (BA, Philosophy and Psychology). He was a member of George Habash's ...

Samuel Hazo is an American academic, poet and novelist. He recently retired from Duquesne University. The author of books of poetry, fiction, essays, and plays, Samuel Hazo is the Director of the International Poetry Forum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1993, he was appointed as the first State Poet of the Commo ...

Robin Hirsch is a senior lecturer in logic and computer science at University College, London. His grandparents fled Germany in 1933. ...

David Hirst is a correspondent of The Guardian, for whom he reported from the Middle East for the Guardian from 1963 to 2001. ...

Tikva Honig-Parnass is a Jewish Israeli, a former Zionist who was a member of the Jewish armed forces in 1948. See her piece Reflections of the '48 Generation for her opinion, from her present perspective, on her actions and mindset in 1948. ...

Marian Houk (see her blog), a journalist with many years of experience in tthe Middle East (she is formerly worked for UN Radio), currently writes for several publications, including Al Ahram Weekly, the Middle East Times and the Jerusalem Quarterly. ...

Amin Howeidi served as Egypt's ambassador to Iraq for almost three years (1963-1965). He was minister of defence and chief of General Intelligence following the defeat in the June 1967 War. ...

Sara Hussein used to be editor-in- chief of the Caravan student newspaper in the American University of Cairo. Here is an index of her op-ed pieces from her time as editor in chief at the Caravan. Hussein is now (2005) back in the US. ...

Ezzat Ibrahim is (2006) deputy head of the Political Department of Al-Ahram daily and a world fellow at Yale University. ...

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra (1920-1994) was born to a poor Christian family in Bait Laham (Bethlehem). He finished his secondary study in the Arabic college in Jerusalem, obtaining a diploma in education in 1938. Then he obtained a bachelor in English Literature from the same faculty 1938. He then obtained a bachelor degree in English Literature from Cambridge University (England) in 1943 and a master&# ...

Manal Jamal is (2007) a research fellow at the Dubai School of Government and a visiting scholar at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government. ...

Michael Jansen lived in Lebanon for many years before moving to Nicosia. She has written books on Lebanon and Palestine and is the Middle East correspondent for the Irish Times. She also covers Lebanon/Syria and the Cyprus conflict for Middle East International ...

Ali Jarbawi is a Palestinian political analyst and director of Abu Lughod Institute for International Studies at Birzeit University. ...

Dr. Saleh Abdel Jawad was (2002) head of the political science department at Birzeit University. He is (2004) an associate professor of history at Birzeit University. ...

Jamal Juma'a is a member of the the Palestinian Environmental NGOs Network. is a PENGON activist living in Nablus. ...

Ghassan Kanafani (1936-1972) was born in Acre in April,1936. He spent his childhood in Jaffa where he received his education in a French missionary school. He left Jaffa in 1948, first for Lebanon then Syria and Kuwait. He moved to Beirut in 1961, where he wrote novels, short stories, film scripts, political articles and edited a number of political and literary publications, includi ...

Maren Karlitzky ... is based in Rome and is the outreach coordinator of the Palestinian grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign. ...

Dr Ghada Karmi is (2002) Chair of the Association of the Palestinian Community in the UK. She was born in Jerusalem but her family were forced to leave in 1948 -- they lived in the well-to-do suburb of Qatamon which was occupied by Israel in 1948. The family ended up in England, where her father worked for the ...

Ronnie Kasrils (b. 1938) is a South African Jew of Lithuanian descent who was active in the campaign against apartheid in South Africa. As an enemy of the apartheid system, wanted by the South African government, he spent many years in exile. He is a leading figure in the South African Communist Party and a former head of military intelligence in Umkhonto We Sizwe, the armed wing of the African ...

Victor Kattan has a degree in law and has worked in the occupied Palestinian territories. (He was a UN Development Program TOKTEN consultant to the Badil Resource Centre for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights from May–August 2003 and November-February 2004.) He has also been a correspondent for ...

Ali Kazak is (2004) head of the General Palestinian Delegation to Australia and New Zealand and the ambassador of Palestine to Vanuatu and East Timor. He was a few months old when, in 1948, he was dispossessed with his mother and denied the right to return to his homeland and rejoin his father in Haifa, the city of his birth. He did not see his father for 48 years. ...

Paul Kennedy is a British historian at Yale Univ.. Kennedy is also the Director of International Security Studies and along with John Lewis Gaddis and Charles Hill, teaches the Studies in Grand Strategy course at Yale Univ. His wikipedia biography. Perhaps Kennedy ...

Issa Khalaf (Ph.D. Oxford University) is a professor of political science at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa. He teaches mainly in the areas of Comparative Politics and International Relations. His research interests and publications are primarily concerned with the Middle East, including his book Politics in Palestine (State University of New York Press, 1991) and his most recent article in the ...

Dr. Muqtedar Khan is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Director of International Studies at Adrian College in Michigan. At present (2003), he is a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he is a part of the Brookings project on US Foreign Policy towards the Islamic World at the Saban Cente ...

Wendy Lehman is Publications Manager for the Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine. ...

Stephen Lendman, who lives in Chicago, describes himself thus: I'm not a professional journalist - just a retired progressive small businessman vitally concerned about the state of my nation and the world. I do volunteer services for progressive causes on nearly a full time basis. Two issues that concern and obsess me most are Iraq and the plight of the Palestinian pe ...

Jerry Levin is former CNN bureau chief in Beirut who was kidnapped in March 1984 and held hostage. He was the first of the so-called forgotten American hostages in Lebanon. Kidnapped on March 7, 1984, he spent 11 1/2 months in solitary confinement. Beirut Diary, an account by his wife, Sis Levin, of her effort to free him, was published by Inter Varsity Press in the fall of 1989. Since esca ...

Stuart Littlewood is a businessman-turned-writer. His book, Radio Free Palestine tells of the plight of the Palestinians under Israeli occupation. For details visit www.radiofreepalestine.co.uk ...

Miriam Mahlow ... seems to have written pieces about South Africa for newspapers in several different countries. ...

Fawzi Mansour is professeor emeritus of political economy and former chairman of the Middle East Research Centre, Ain Shams University in Cairo. ...

Joseph Andoni Massad, a Jordanian of Palestinian origin, is (2001) an Assistant Professor in the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. ...

Todd May is a Professor of Philosophy, Clemson University. May has been working for Palestinian rights for many years, taught on the issue, and was on a human rights delegation to the occupied territories in 1988 during the first intifada. ...

Emad Mekay is the IPS trade and finance correspondent, based in Washington, D.C. He joined IPS in October 2001, and has since broken several stories related to controversial activities of the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and the International Monetary Fund. He has also reported widely o ...

Khaled Meshal (also transliterated as "Mishaal" or "Mashal") was born in May 1956, in the village of Silwad in Ramallah district. He says of himself: "I lived in Silwad for 11 years until the 1967 war, when I was forced with my family, like hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, to leave home and settle in ...

People who work for Miftah, a Palestinian NGO whose Secretary-General is Dr. Hanan Ashrawi. ...

Soheir Morsy is an Egyptian-American medical anthropologist and a UN consultant. She and her husband, Dr. el-Bayoumi, have taught at a number of universities in the United States, including Florida State, Michigan State, MIT, Berkeley and Tufts, as well as universities in Egypt. During their long teaching careers in the United States they became citizens, and now, in retirement, shuttle betwee ...

Yehia Moussa is a leading Hamas politician and deputy head of the movement's parliamentary bloc in the Gaza Strip. ...

Dr. Hassan Elsayed Ahmed Nafaa, born in 1947, is (2001) professor of political science and head of the Political Science department at Cairo University. He is a specialist on International Relations/ Organization and Middle East politics ...

Nicola Nasser's Mathaba News network biography: Nicola Nasser is a veteran Arab journalist based in Birzeit, West Bank of the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories. Since 1982 he has been working as a professional bilingual journalist (editor-in-chief, chief editor, managin ...

Gamal Nkrumah writes for Al-Ahram. He is the son of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of Ghana. ...

Roger Owen is a professor of history at Harvard University's Centre for Middle Eastern Studies. He received a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford in 1964. His research interests include: Economic and social history of the Middle East, politics of the Middle East. Courses he taught recently incl ...

Ilan Pappй, whose PhD is from the University of Oxford, is professor of history at the University of Exeter in the UK, and co-director of the Exeter Center for Ethno-Political Studies. Until 2007, he was a senior lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the ...

John Petrovato, owner of Raven Used Books in Conway, Mass, is a member of Boston to Palestine, which describes itself as the "Boston support group for the International Solidarity Movement". He participated in the ISM Olive ha ...

Professor Abdul-Sattar Qassem is (2004) a Professor of Political Science at the Najah National University in Nablus. Qassem was born in Deir Al-Ghusson village near Tulkarm city in 1948 and obtained a BA in political sciences from the American University in Cairo. He also has an MA in political sciences from the Kansas state university and another MA in economy from the American university of Mi ...

Mazin B. Qumsiyeh is an associate professor of genetics at Yale University and treasurer of the Palestinian Right to Return Coalition. Qumsiyeh was born in 1957 in ...

In 2004, Stuart Reigeluth was writing a master’s thesis on Mahmoud Darwish and Mourid Barghouti at the American University of Beirut (AUB). He is now Program Manager of the Africa and Middle East Program at Toledo International Center ...

Miriam Reik has taught literature at several American Universities including Temple University and Wayne State University. She is a former congressional press secretary, and a former journalist. She currently lives in New York. ...

Yunan Labib Rizk is a professor of history and head of Al-Ahram History Studies Centre. ...

Andrew N. Rubin, assistant professor of English literature at Georgetown University, US, is the director of the International Coalition of Academics Against Occupation and the author of ...

Edward Said (1 November 1935 – 24 September 2003) was a Palestinian who was Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York. A biography of Professor Said can be found at the web-site of ...

Rasha Salti is a 37-year-old (2006) is a curator and freelance writer, and lives in New York and Beirut. She is the Cinema East director at ArteEast, a New York-based non-profit organization established in 2003 to present contemporary Middle-Eastern artists to a wide audience in order to foster more complex understanding of the region’s arts and cultures and promote artistic excellence. ...

Shahira Samy is Jarvis Doctorow Junior Research Fellow in International Relations and Conflict Resolution in the Middle East, St Edmund Hall and the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford. She specialises in the politics of reparations, displacement and the Arab- Israeli conflict. ...

Dr. Anis Sayigh was born in Tiberias in 1931. He was in Boarding school in Jerusalem when Tiberias fell and his family had to leave the city. He received his undergraduate education at the American University in Beirut, and his Ph.D in political studies at Cambridge. He wrote more than 20 books on the history of the Arab world and the question of Palestine. He was editor-in-chief of the mo ...

Dr. Rosemary Sayigh is a Beirut-based anthropologist, researcher, and author. The late Yusif Sayigh was her husband. ...

Patrick Searle, an eminent writer and broadcaster, has established a reputation as one the English-speaking world's leading authorities on Syria. He joined the Board of Middle East International in 1997 and not infrequently contributes articles and advice. He has covered the Middle East for over 30 years specializing in Syria. A former correspondent for The Observer, he has int ...

Randa Shaath is a Palestinian who was born in the United States in 1963. She grew up in Lebanon, studied in Egypt and the US, and now lives in Cairo. Her father is Nabil Shaath. ...

Dr. Sami Shalom Chetrit (sami@kedma.co.il) was born in Qasr as-Suq, Morocco, in 1960 but, as he says himself, he "relocated to Israel with my Arab-Jewish family in 1963". He grew up in an immigrant working class neighborhood in the port city of Ashdod (the former Palestinian village Asdud). He is active in Mizrahi oppressed communities on alternative equal education and community empowerment. ...

Khalil Shikaki is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Bir Zeit. He is (2002) director of the Palestinian Centre for Policy and Survey Research in Ramallah and a visiting fellow at The Brookings Institution in Washington DC. He finished his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1985, and taught at seve ...

Mounzer Sleiman is a Washington-based senior political-military analyst with expertise in US national security affairs. ...

Fouzi Slisli taught at Essex University (UK), and St Cloud State University (USA). He is former editor of the Arab-American literary journal, Mizna, and former board member of the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee, Minnesota, where he currently lives. ...

Francisco Javier Solana Madariaga (born 14 July 1942 in Madrid, Spain) is the High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and the Secretary-General of both the Council of the European Union (EU) and the Western European Union (WEU). He was a physicist who became a political minister for 13 years under Felipe Gonzбlez before serving as Secretary General of NATO from 199 ...

Issaka Souarй holds an MA in International Relations from London Metropolitan University and works at the International Secretariat of Amnesty International in London. A Contributing Editor to the London-based review journal, African Renaissance, he is the author of numerous articles relating to Africa. His most recent publications have addressed Franco-Africa relations, human rights, conflict r ...

Ahdaf Soueif, born in Cairo, now divides her time between London and Cairo. She has two sons born 1984 and 1989. She writes in both English and Arabic and has written various essays and reviews published in: Akhbar al-Adab, al-Arabi, Cosmopolitan, Granta, al-Hilal, al-Katibah, The London Magazine, The London Review of Books, New Society, Nisf al-Dunya, The Observer, Sabah al-Kheir, Th ...

Salim Tamari was born in Jaffa in 1945 but had to flee the city with his family in 1948. He is the director of the Institute for Jerusalem Studies (an institution affiliated to the Institute for Palestine Studies), and ...

Lisa Taraki was born to an American mother and Afghan father but she now (2003) lives in Ramallah with her Palestinian husband and son -- she has lived in Palestine for 27 years. She is an associate professor of Sociology at Birzeir University on the West Bank. See ...

Born in Mersayside, Philip M. Taylor (also see here) is professor of international communications at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. ...

David Tresilian has taught at Columbia University, New York, the American University of Cairo, Cairo University and the University of Paris XIII. He has been at the American University of Paris since 1999. After graduate work at Oxford University in England in 20th century English Literature, he went to Columbia University to study Comparative Literature. While there, he specialized in theory a ...

Graham Usher is a British journalist based in Jerusalem who writes regularly for the Economist and Middle East International. ...

Born in 1954 in Marrakesh, Morocco, Mordechai Vanunu was elected rector of Glasgow University in 2004, as part of a campaign to have him allowed to travel abroad from Israel. Vanunu was born into a large and deeply religious Jewish family which emigrated to Israel in 1963, Mordechai Vanunu served f ...

Louis Werner is an independent documentary film maker who works regularly in the Middle East. ...

John Whitbeck is an American lawyer who writes frequently on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In 2003, he appears to be teaching law in France. He has also lived in Saudi Arabia and other countries. His articles have been published in leading newspapers is many countries, including Australia, Egypt, Israel, ..., Lebanon, ..., United States. His "Two States, One Holy Land" framework for peace ...

Lesley Whiting, based in Cairo, is an artist and teacher. She is a member of the International Solidarity Movement. ...

Abdul-Kader Yassin, a veteran Palestinian political activist, is (1996) a writer and researcher, living and working in Egypt. ...

Dr. Robert Younes is a retired physician living in Potomac, Maryland. He graduated from McGill University, Faculty of Medicine and was trained in Pediatrics. He also has a Masters Degree in Public Health from Harvard University and a Masters in Business Administration from Virginia Polytechnic and State University. He was Director of Pediatrics at a community hospital in Boston, MA. Whi ...

Hanna Ziadeh describes himself as follows: Half- Palestinian and half-Lebanese, and in religious terms part Greek Orthodox and part Maronite, though baptised Roman Catholic, I was first kidnapped at the age of 14, became a leftist activist at 17 and received political asylum in Copenhagen at 20 and now live in Cairo. ...

Dr. James (Jim) Zogby serves as the President of the Arab American Institute in Washington, DC. He co-founded the organization in 1985 and for the past two decades has been involved in a full range of Arab American issu ...

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