Tom Ricks

Senior Advisor for National Security, The New America Foundation & Contributing Editor, Foreign Policy Magazine

Sara Minkara

Founder & CEO of Empowerment Through Integration

Scott Peterson

Journalist Covering the Middle East for The Christian Science Monitor; Author of "Let the Swords Encircle Me: Iran–A Journey Behind the Headlines"

Avi Issacharoff

Israeli Journalist; The Times of Israel's Middle East Analyst

Thomas Ricks

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Washington Post Journalist, Military History Columnist & Best-Selling Author of "Fiasco" and "The Gamble"

Thomas E. Ricks — Waging a Good War: A Military History of the

Simran Jeet Singh

Professor, Writer & Activist

Christina Lamb

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

Tasneem Alsultan

Investigative Photographer, Storyteller & Global Traveler

Magical Portraiture in Low Light with Tasneem Alsultan

Yasmine Al Massri

International Actress, Artist and Dancer; Currently Featured on ABC's "Quantico"

Wazhma Furmuli

Initiative to Educate Afghan Women Board of Director

Anne-Marie Slaughter

Foreign Policy Expert, Author & CEO, New America Foundation

Mavis Leno

Chair of the Campaign to Help Afghan Women & Girls

Emma Sky

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

Andrea Mitchell

Award-Winning Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent at NBC & Host of "Andrea Mitchell Reports"

Amani Al-Khatahbeh

Author & Entrepreneur, Muslimgirl.com

Nonie Darwish

Egyptian-American Human Rights Activist, Author & Founder of Arabs For Israel

Asra Nomani

Journalist & Author, Women's Rights Activist

Sahar Delijani

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

Shereen El Feki

Journalist, Author, & TEDGlobal Fellow

Muna Abu Sulayman

Media Personality and Journalist on the Middle Eastern Show "Kalam Nawaem"