Zeinab Abul-Magd Editor & Author

Elke Grawert is a political scientist and senior researcher at Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC). She teaches at the Institute of Political Science and Sociology, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University, Bonn, Germany. Zeinab Abul-Magd is an associate professor of Middle Eastern history at Oberlin College and the American University in Cairo. Contributors: İsmet Akça, assistant professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Yıldız Technical University, Turkey. Atta El-Battahani, professor of political science, University of Khartoum, Sudan, and Senior Advisor for International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) in Sudan. Philippe Droz-Vincent, professor of political science and international relations, Sciences-Po Grenoble, France. Kevan Harris, sociologist and associate director at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies, Princeton University. Shana Marshall, associate director of the Institute for Middle East Studies, George Washington University. Adam C. Seitz, senior research associate for Middle East Studies at the Marine Corps University, Quantico, VA. Ayesha Siddiqa, independent social scientist based in Pakistan. The first Pakistan fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars, she also served with the Pakistan Navy as Director of Naval Research. Sherifa Zuhur, senior analyst at the Middle East Desk for Wikistrat and associate editor of the Review of Middle East Studies for Contemporary Conflicts and Systems.