Robin Wright

Foreign Policy Analyst, Journalist & Author of "Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion across the Islamic World"

Lesley Hazleton

Author of "The First Muslim," a New Look at the Life of Muhammad

Rami George Khouri

Executive Editor of Lebanese Newspaper, The Daily Star

James Traub

Global Affairs & Politics Writer

Bing West

Correspondent & Military Author

James Rubin

Special Envoy and Coordinator for the U.S. Department of State’s Global Engagement Center, Served as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs in the Clinton Administration from 1997–2000

Richard Wolffe

Digital Executive, Best-Selling Author & Columnist at The Guardian

President's Speaker Series - YouTube

Neeshad Shafi

Sustainability Futurist, Social Change Advocate & Expert on Climate Policy in the Middle East; Founder of Arab Youth Climate Movement Qatar

Emma Sky

British Expert on the Middle East, Former Political Advisor in Iraq, Current Director of Yale World Fellows

Jay Kopelman

Business Advisor, Senior Healthcare Leader & Author

Juan Zarate

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

Karen Elliott House

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist, Former Managing Editor at The Wall Street Journal & Author of "On Saudi Arabia"

Willis Sparks

Director of Global Macro, Eurasia Group; U.S. Electoral Geopolitical Risk Management Expert

Shabnam Nasimi

Former Policy Advisor to Minister for Afghan Resettlement & Minister for Refugees, Social & Political Activist; Founder, Executive Director of the Conservative Friends of Afghanistan

Noura Erakat

Human Rights Attorney, Associate Professor at Rutgers University & Author of "Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine"

Noura Erakat Contextualizes Israel's Indiscriminate Airstrikes in Gaza

Christina Lamb

Author, Award-Winning Foreign Correspondent, Global Fellow of Wilson Center; & Contributor to "I Am Malala"

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

Sa'ed Atshan

Associate Professor of Peace & Conflict Studies & Anthropology at Swarthmore College

Sa'ed Atshan - Stanford University Press MESA 2020

Sarah Birke

Tokyo Bureau Chief