The Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia

Prince Turki Al Faisal, Chairman of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Sultan bin Sooud Al Qassemi, Columnist, United Arab Emirates

Prince Moulay Hicham Benabdallah, Morocco

Ann E. Mayer, Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Seteney Shami, Ph.D., Founding Director of the Arab Council for the Social Sciences, Lebanon

John Waterbury, President of the American University of Beirut, Emeritus, and Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Princeton, Emeritus

Malika Zeghal, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Islamic Thought and Life, Harvard University