Sahar Delijani

Iranian Author Best Known for "Children of the Jacaranda Tree"

Juan Zarate

Former Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Combating Terrorism

Shibley Telhami

Professor for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland

The Peace Puzzle: America's Quest for Arab-Israeli Peace, 1989–2011

Jay Kopelman

Business Advisor, Senior Healthcare Leader & Author

Bing West

Correspondent & Military Author

Sonia Nassery Cole

Filmmaker and Philanthropist

Gen. Peter Pace, USMC (Ret.)

Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (2005-2007)

Rami George Khouri

Executive Editor of Lebanese Newspaper, The Daily Star

Michael Leiter

Former Director of National Counterterrorism Center; Counterterrorism, Cybersecurity & National Security Analyst for NBC News

Lara Setrakian

Founder, Syria Deeply; Innovative Journalist

James Traub

Global Affairs & Politics Writer

Ambassador Munir Akram

Former Permanent Representative to the UN from Pakistan

Nathan J. Brown

Professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University, is a distinguished scholar and author of six books on Arab politics

Jon B. Alterman

Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy and Director, Middle East Program

Saeed Al Muntafiq

Chairman at Rise UAE

Karima Bennoune

Professor of International Law, Author, "Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism"

Sameena Nazir

Founder and Executive Director of Potohar Organization for Development Advocacy (PODA), Pakistani Peace Activist and Human Rights Director

Judea Pearl

Israeli-born American Computer Scientist and Philosopher; Father of Slain Wall Street Journal Reporter Daniel Pearl; President of the Daniel Pearl Foundation

Maajid Nawaz

Counter-Extremism Activist

Carolyn Barnett

Fellow, Middle East Program