Abdullah Bankhar

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

Abdullah K. Al-Kindi

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

Adel Iskandar

Associate Professor of Global Communication at Simon Fraser University

Ahmed Al-Rawi

Associate Professor, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University

Ahmed El Gody

Senior Lecturer Media and Communication Studies, Örebro University. Director of Journalism Connected and Masters of Global Journalism

Noha El-Mikawy

Dean of the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, The American University in Cairo

Andrew Hammond

Lecturer St Anthony’s College, University of Oxford

Azza Ahmed

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

Carol Kay Winkler

Professor, Department of Communication, Georgia State University

Christa Salamandra

Professor of Anthropology at Lehman College, CUNY

Douglas Boyd

Professor Emeritus in the Department of Communication at the University of Kentucky

Ezzat Hijab

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

Jad Melki

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

Jon Alterman

Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy, Director of 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

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

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

Philip Auter

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

Philip Seib

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

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, a 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

Samy Elsherif

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

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