Mr. Barry Lando is a Canadian native living in Paris, France. 

Lando spent 25 years an an award-winning investigative producer with 60 minutes and directed a documentary two years ago called, “The Trial of Saddam Hussein We’ll Never See.”

Born and raised in New York, Eman Ahmed is an Egyptian-American attorney specializing in employment discrimination. She received her B.A. from St. John’s University, Suma Cum Laude, and her J.D. from New York Law School where she also served as an editor at the more

I was born and raised in El Bireh in Palestine. I received her BA in English Literature from Birzeit University and a PhD in English and American literature from Boston University. I taught at An Najah National University in Nablus before returning to the US to teach postcolonial literature, cult... more

Aly Mohamed is an Egyptian American student and a budding journalist at Oregon State University.  He recently earned an Honors Bachelors of Science in Bioresource Research with a concentration in Biotechnology, and a minor in Chemistry. He served as the president of the OSU Muslim Student As... more

Josephine Zohny was born to an Italian-American mother and an Egyptian-born father in Pittsburgh, PA. She grew up in the Washington, DC metropolitan area and moved to New York City shortly before the September 11th attacks to attend college.

She received a B.A. in Music Bu... more

Ayesha Saldanha is a translator and writer living in Bahrain, and is working on a major project translating contemporary Bahraini works of fiction and non-fiction into English.

Ayesha was born in India, and grew up in Britain. She studied Arabic at the University of L... more

Muhammad Ali Hasan is a political commentator/writer, filmmaker, and activist.

Hasan is the Co-Founder of Muslims For America, a think-tank  organization that specializes in policy proposals that address  solution... more

Kamin Mohammadi is an Iranian writer, journalist, broadcaster and commentator who lives in London where she moved after leaving Iran as a child. She specialises in writing about Iran, particularly modern society.

She is passionate about bringing out the human elements... more

Naeem Randhawa is a filmmaker, travel writer, and IT project manager, living in Dallas with his wife and baby boy. He has been writing about travel for over 12 years, and made his film directorial debut last year, with a film about fasting called “Am... more

Mr. Fahad Nazer is a fellow at the Institute for Gulf Affairs in Washington, DC. A native of Saudi Arabia, he has worked as a political analyst at the Department of Political Affairs and as a media analyst at the Information Office of the Saudi Embassy i... more

Beatrice Vanni is an independent consultant and professional editor and writer who specializes in project development to help public and private sector businesses and consultants attract more clients. She combines her editing, writing and program development expertise to help lead companies to lo... more

Ramzi Zakharia is a Palestinian-American blogger who was born in Beirut and is now based in New York City. He works in the media and advertising sector and has strong insights into both Arab and US media outlets. 

Ramzi is also very involved in the Arab-American Commu... more

Courtney C. Radsch is a scholar and freelance journalist who focuses on the Arab media and politics.

She is a Ph.D. candidate at the School of International Service at American University in Washington, D.C. Ms. Radsch is writing her dissertation on the Arab media... more

Nadia  was born in New York City but spent her formative years in Cairo, Egypt.

She completed two years at the American University in Cairo before transferring to Florida Southern College, where she obtained a bachelors degree in print and broadcast journalism.

Christine (Amina) Benlafquih is a freelance writer whose work includes articles, opinion pieces, personal essays and occasional fiction and poetry. A former publications and public relations director, she earned a B.A. in Journalism from Duquesne University in 1987.

Origin... more

Nadia is a Palestinian-American writer based in Detroit. She recently received a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Wayne State University and plans to pursue graduate studies in Visual Culture/Criticism. She is an artist, writer, media maker and activist.

Currently Nadia is working with ... more

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin grew up in California... more

Ramzi Khoury is an opinion columnist and satirist who publishes a weekly page, Piece of Mind, at the Saudi Gazette and elsewhere every Wednesday, Ramzi E. Khoury started his career in Granada Television in the 80s working on documentaries and since then has worked in the print, television and rad... more

Ms. Alhusseini joined the Arab American Family Support Center as Executive Director in April 06 after a number of years at the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), where she served as international outreach project manager on issues of... more

Yasmina Hatem was born in Beirut, Lebanon where she spent most of her life.

She started writing for a French weekly newspaper for teenagers when she was 15 years old and has been active in journalism ever since.

She attended Columbia University's Gr... more

Deborah Ann Dilley is actively trying to reinvent the term “renaissance man” to fit her lifestyle. A student, scholar, teacher, reader, writer, blogger, linguist and archaeologist -- Deborah is active is a wide variety of activities.

She graduated in 2004 w... more

Jillian York is a freelance writer who focuses on the MENA region, with an emphasis on Morocco.

After graduating with a BA in Sociology from Binghamton University, Jillian volunteered with AmeriCorps before moving to Morocco to teach English for two years.

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Ather Zia previously worked with the BBC as a producer and later served as an editor of a literary journal. 

As a columnist with first-hand experience in the region, she examines the Kashmir conflict from a historical, political and socio-economic perspective. She als... more

Leaving her hometown of Columbus, Ohio behind, Maria Shehata quickly earned herself a place at the table at some of the best comedy clubs in New York City.

 
Between appearing in Comedy Central's Friday Night with Greg Giraldo and The Watch List, and performing i... more

I haven't an ounce of Arab blood within me -- but I have been to Israel/Palestine five times since June 2005 and have been reporting on the Christian Exodus from the Holy Land on http://www.wearewideawake.org and as a correspondent for more

Dr. Ghassan Michel Rubeiz is a Lebanese-American Middle East analyst with special interest in political sociology, social justice and democracy. He is a former professor of social work and psychology.

He was Secretary of the Geneva-based World Council of Churches for the M... more

A. Scheherezada Jerome is an Anglo-Ottoman Instructor of Islamic Studies at York College of Pennsylvania. She graduated from Dickinson College in 2003 with a self-developed major in Middle Eastern Studies and Spanish.

In 2004, she graduated from the School of Oriental and ... more

Dr. James J. Zogby is founder and president of the Arab American Institute (AAI), a Washington, D.C.-based organization which serves as the political and policy research arm of the Arab American community. Since 1985, Dr. Zogby and AAI have led Arab American efforts to secure political empowermen... more

Sabria Jawhar is a Saudi columnist and reporter for the Jeddah-based English-language daily newspaper Saudi Gazette. She currently lives in Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom, where she is a PhD student at the University of Newcastle.

She is considered one of the leading female jou... more

Dr. Terri Ginsberg received her doctorate in Cinema Studies from New York University. She taught most recently at North Carolina State University. 

 Dr. Ginsberg taught previously in the Jewish Studies Program at Dartmouth College and the Cinema Studies Program at Rutgers... more

Arash Kamangir is an Iranian graduate student. He relocated to Canada in September 2005.

Since October 2004 Arash, has maintained his blog "Kamangir" which talks about Iran, Islam, the Islamic Republic of Iran an... more