April Doss chairs the Cybersecurity and Privacy practice at Saul Ewing, and is the former Associate General Counsel for Intelligence Law at NSA. [The views expressed here are the author’s and not those o...

Randa Slim is Director of the Track II Dialogues Initiative at the Middle East Institute and Non-Resident Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Stud...

Paul Salem is the Vice President for Policy and Research at the Middle East Institute.

Jennifer M. Harris is senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Prior to joining CFR, Harris was a member of the policy planning staff at the U.S. Department of State, where she was respon...

Stefan Heumann is member of the management board at the Berlin based Think Tank Stiftung Neue Verantwortung (SNV). During the past years he worked on building and establishing SNV’s focus on issues at th...

Ammar Abdulhamid is a Syrian author and pro-democracy activist currently based in Silver Spring, Maryland where he arrived with his family as political refugees in September 2005. His recent book, "The I...

Dr. Ed Bates is an Associate Professor in Law at the University of Leicester. He is the author of The Evolution of the European Convention on Human Rights (Oxford University Press, 2010), and co-author o...

Yuri Zhukov is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a Faculty Associate with the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research. His r...

Noha Aboueldahab is a visiting fellow at the Brookings Doha Center. Her research focus is on transitional justice in the Arab region. In particular, she examines the factors that triggered, drove and sha...

Rishabh Bhandari graduated from Yale College with degrees in History and Global Affairs. His senior thesis focused on the decision making of the Nixon administration in response to the 1971 Bengali Genoc...

Tom Dannenbaum is Lecturer in Human Rights at University College London, where he writes on a range of issues in international law. In the summer of 2017, he will join the Fletcher School of Law and Dipl...

Patrick B. Johnston is a political scientist at the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corporation.

Jeffrey Rosen is President and CEO of the National Constitution Center. He also serves as a law professor at George Washington University and is a contributing editor for The Atlantic with a focus on leg...

Dennis Gleeson is formerly a director of strategy for analytic technologies and information technology systems in the Central Intelligence Agency’s Directorate of Analysis; he started his career and work...