Abdullah Bankhar

Assistant Professor in the Department of Marketing Communications,  College of Communication & Media, King Abdul Aziz University, Saudi Arabia

Abdullah K. Al-Kindi

Professor of Journalism and Electronic Publishing and Head of the Department of Mass Communication, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman 

Abdulrahman Al-Shami

Professor of Broadcast & Digital Journalism, Department of Mass Communication, College of Arts and Sciences, Qatar University, Qatar

Adel Iskandar

Associate Professor of Global Communication at Simon Fraser University, Canada

Ahmed Al-Rawi

Associate Professor, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University

Andrew Hammond

Lecturer at St. Anthony’s College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Azza Ahmed

Professor and Coordinator of Media in Arabic at Zayed University, United Arab Emirates. Professor at the Faculty of Mass Communication, Cairo University, Egypt

Bouziane Zaid

Associate Professor of Media and Communication at the University of Sharjah, UAE

Carol Kay Winkler

Professor, Department of Communication, Georgia State University

Christa Salamandra

Professor of Anthropology at Lehman College, CUNY, United States

Douglas Boyd

Professor Emeritus in the Department of Communication at the University of Kentucky, United States

Ehab Galal

Associate Professor Emeritus, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Ezzat Hijab

Professor and ex-Dean of the Journalism and Mass Communication school at the Yarmouk University and Middle East University in Jordan, Jordan

Firas Al-Atraqchi

Chair, Department of Journalism and Communication, Managing co-editor The Cairo Review of Global Affairs, Professor of Practice and Caravan Faculty Advisor, School of Global Affairs and Public Policy (GAPP), The American University in Cairo, Egypt

Hesham Mesbah

Professor at the Department of Communication Studies, Rollins College, United States

Jad Melki

Associate Professor, Journalism and Media Studies, Chairperson, Department of Communication Arts, Director, Institute of Media Research and Training, Lebanese American University, Lebanon

Jon Alterman

Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy, the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C.

Kai Hafez

Chair Professor for International and Comparative Media Studies, University of Erfurt, Germany

Khaled Salaheddin Hassan

Professor at the Faculty of Mass Communication, Cairo University, Egypt

Mahitab Ezz El Din

Associate Professor, Department of Media and Journalism (MJ), Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden

Marwan M. Kraidy

Dean and CEO, Northwestern University in Qatar

Mohammad Ayish

Head of the Department of Mass Communication at the American University of Sharjah, UAE

Mohammed el-Nawawy

Professor of Media Studies, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar

Noha Mellor

Professor of Media, University of Sharjah, UAE

Omar Al Ghazzi

Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Communications at London School of Economics, United Kingdom

Philip Auter

Professor of Communication; Hubert Bourgeois Endowed Professor in Communication; University of Louisiana at Lafayette, United States

Philip Seib

Professor Emeritus of Journalism and Public Diplomacy and Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California, United States

Rasha Allam

Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, School of Global Affairs and Public Policy (GAPP), The American University in Cairo

Rami Khouri

Director of Global Engagement at the American University of Beirut (AUB), an internationally syndicated political columnist and book author, professor of journalism and Journalist-in-Residence at AUB, and a non-resident senior fellow at the Kennedy School at Harvard University

Sahar Khamis

Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Maryland, College Park, United States

Samy Elsherif

Dean, Faculty of Mass Communication, Modern University for Technology and Information, Egypt

Shadi Abuayyash

Assistant Professor of Media and Strategic Communication at the United Arab Emirates University, UAE

Suzan Elkelini

Dean of Media and Public Relations, Emirates College of Technology, UAE

William A. Rugh

Edward R. Murrow Visiting Professor of Public Diplomacy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, United States