Rania Abouzeid, Journalist, Author and Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations

Rania Abouzeid, Journalist, Author and Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations

Jon B. Alterman, Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington D.C.

Ali M. Ansari, Professor of Iranian History and founding Director of the Institute for Iranian Studies at the University of St Andrews

James Barr, Author and Journalist. He has written several historical works on the Middle East.

Ali Fathollah-Nejad, Founder and Director of the Center for Middle East and Global Order, Fellow with the University of Bonn's Center for Advanced Security, Strategic and Integration Studies

Peter Frankopan, Professor of Global History at the University of Oxford

Chaim Gans, Professor Emeritus of Law at the Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University

Amber Gartrell, Lecturer in Roman History at the Department of History at University College London

Kim Ghattas, Kim Ghattas is a Middle East expert, author and Emmy-award winning journalist. She's contributing writer for The Atlantic magazine and contributing editor for The Financial Times.

Andrew S. Gilmour, Scholar-in- Residence at the Center for the Study of Statesmanship at the Catholic University of America

Martin Goodman, Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies at the University of Oxford and Fellow of the British Academy

Sir John Jenkins, Associate fellow of Chatham House, the Strand Leader for the Middle East and North Africa at Cambridge University's Centre for Geopolitics, Senior Fellow at Policy Exchange and Adviser to the Conservative Middle East Council

Halil M. Karaveli, Senior Fellow at the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program Joint Center and Editor of the Turkey Analyst

Elisabeth Kendall, Mistress [President] of Girton College at the University of Cambridge

Hugh Kennedy, Professor, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

Stephen Kotkin, Kleinheinz Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the Birkelund Professor Emeritus of History and International Affairs at the former Woodrow Wilson School for International and Public Affairs, Princeton University

Nelly Lahoud, Professor of Security Studies in the Department of National Security and Strategy at the US Army War College

Göran Larsson, Professor of religious studies, especially focused on religious history, at University of Gothenburg.

Gabriel Martinez-Gros, Professor of Medieval History at the University of Paris-Nanterre

General Sir Simon Mayall, Former soldier in the British Army

Yossef Rapoport, Professor of Islamic History at Queen Mary University, London

Mark Ronan, Honorary Professor of Mathematics at University College London

Stefanie Rudolf, Postdoctoral Scholar, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Berlin

Peter Sarris, Professor of Late Antique, Medieval and Byzantine Studies at the University of Cambridge

Nathan Shachar, Journalist and Author. His collections of essays have received the most prestigious Swedish literary awards, including the Övralid Prize in 2014. He has been a foreign correspondent in the Middle East and Latin America and is a member of the editorial board of Axess magazine.

Brendan Simms, Professor of the History of European International Relations and Director of the Centre for Geopolitics at the University of Cambridge

Selena Wisnom, Lecturer in the Heritage of the Middle East, University of Leicester