Daleen Saah is a multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles. Her creative practice serves to reflect and amplify Palestinian + Arab World expression. Daleen's independent projects and artist collaborations use visual storytelling, experience, curation, design, cartography and spatial analysis to explore topics between identity, culture and politics.
David Cronin is a journalist, author and social activist. His work has been published by The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The Irish Times, European Voice, The Sunday Tribune and the Inter Press Service. Cronin is currently the Brussels correspondent for the Inter Press Service news agency and a contributor to the Electronic Intifada....
David Miller is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Social and Policy Sciences at the University of Bath. In 2012 he was appointed to the editorial board of the BSA journal Sociology. In 2013 he was appointed a Global Uncertainties Leadership Fellow by the Economic and Social Research Council to examine the construction, use...
Diana Alghoul is a London based journalist and political analyst. She holds an MA from King's Collage London's War Studies department and focuses on Middle Eastern affairs, along with counter-terrorism and defence policy.
Donald Macintyre is a British journalist on The Independent. After working at the Birmingham Sunday Mercury, Macintyre moved to the Daily Express as an industrial reporter, subsequently becoming Labour Editor at The Sunday Times and Times. He joined The Sunday Telegraph as Political Editor in 1987, leaving it for the short-lived Sunday Correspondent in 1990 before joining first The Independent on Sunday and then The Independent as Political Editor (1993-96). Macintyre...
Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari is a noted British Civic Leader, Educationalist, Parenting Consultant and Author. Dr Abdul Bari is a founding member of the Muslim Council of Britain, Citizens UK and has been involved with the East London Mosque and several charities including Muslim Aid. He was a board member of the London Organising Committee...
Azzam Tamimi is an outspoken and well-known British Palestinian academic and political activist. He writes and lectures on issues relating to Islamic political thought and Middle Eastern politics. Dr Tamimi received his BSc in Combined Sciences from the University of Sunderland in 1979, before completing a PhD in Political Theory from the University of Westminster...
Corinna Mullin is a lecturer and an ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Politics and International Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). The principal aim of her current research in comparative international political theory is to examine the potential epistemological and ideological challenges posed by Islamist movements to the Western understanding of...
Daud Abdullah is a well-known British academic, and political and social commentator. He writes and lectures on issues relating to Middle Eastern and British politics, Islam, and Muslim-Western relations. Dr Abdullah received his BA in history from the University of Guyana in 1981 before completing a PhD in History at the University of Khartoum in...
Dr Long is the current Ecuadorian Minister of Culture and Heritage, and president of the International Relations Commision of Alianza PAIS (ruling party). He was minister of Knowledge and Human Talent. He started his political career as the president of the Board of Evaluation, Accreditation and Quality Assurance in Higher Education (CEAACES). He holds a...
Hanan Chehata is an activist, political writer and commentator on the Middle East. She is also actively involved in various charitable and humanitarian initiatives. Educated at Brunel University in London, Dr Chehata received her BA in Law in 2000 followed by a Master’s in Criminal Justice in 2002 and a PhD in Law in 2007....