Brown, a professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University, is a distinguished scholar and author of six well-received books on Arab politics.

Dunne is an expert on political and economic change in Arab countries, particularly Egypt, as well as U.S. policy in the Middle East.

Amr Hamzawy studied political science and developmental studies in Cairo, The Hague, and Berlin.

Zaha Hassan is a human rights lawyer and visiting fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Levite was the principal deputy director general for policy at the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission from 2002 to 2007.

Andrew Miller is a nonresident scholar in Carnegie’s Middle East Program.

Muasher is vice president for studies at Carnegie, where he oversees research in Washington and Beirut on the Middle East.

Yezid Sayigh is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, where he leads the program on Civil-Military Relations in Arab States (CMRAS). His work focuses on the comparative political and economic roles of Arab armed forces and nonstate actors, the impact of war on states and societies, and the politics of postconflict reconstruction and security sector transformation in Arab transitions, and authoritarian resurgence.

Jake Walles is a nonresident senior fellow in the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he focuses on Israeli-Palestinian issues, Tunisia, and counterterrorism.

Sarah Yerkes is a senior fellow in Carnegie’s Middle East Program, where her research focuses on Tunisia’s political, economic, and security developments as well as state-society relations in the Middle East and North Africa.