Lisa Anderson is dean of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University Stephen Philip Cohen is a senior fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution. Michele Durocher Dunne is visiting assistant professor of Arabic language, linguistics, and literature at Georgetown University Dale F. Eickelman, Ralph and Richard Lazarus Professor of Anthropology and Human Relations at Dartmouth College Graham E. Fuller, a former vice chair of the National Intelligence Council at the Central Intelligence Agency, has lived many years in different parts of the Muslim world. He also was a senior political scientist at RAND Corporation for twelve years. He is currently an independent writer and analyst Adam Garfinkle is former editor of The National Interest and chief writer of the reports of the U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century (the Hart-Rudman Commission) F.

Gregory Gause III is an associate professor of political science at the University of Vermont and director of the university's Middle East studies program His Royal Highness Prince El Hassan bin Talal has initiated, founded, and is actively involved in a large number of Jordanian and international institutes and committees. He is a founding member of the Parliament of Cultures, established in Istanbul in July 2003 M. A. Muqtedar Khan is a visiting fellow at Brookings Institution and director of International Studies at Adrian College Martin Kramer is editor of the Philadelphia-based Middle East Quarterly. He is a senior associate of the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University Daoud Kuttab is an award-winning Palestinian journalist and freedom-of-expression media activist. He is the director of the Institute of Modern Media at Al Quds University in Ramallah Ellen Laipson became president and chief executive officer of the Henry L. Stimson Center in April 2002 after a twenty-five-year career in the U.S.

government Olivier Roy is currently a senior researcher at CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research) William A. Rugh was a foreign service officer for thirty years, serving abroad in Beirut, Cairo, Jeddah, Riyadh, Damascus, San'a, and Abu Dhabi -- the latter two as U.S. ambassador. Robert Satloff has served since May 2002 as the Morocco-based director of policy and strategic planning at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy Amir Taheri is the author of ten books on the Middle East and the Islamic world. He was executive editor of Kayhan, Iran's largest daily newspaper, from 1972-1979 and, for the past twenty-five years, has written for many Western and Middle Eastern publications on issues concerning the Muslim world.