Advisory Board

Dr. Joshua Landis
Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern Studies - Co-Director, Center for Middle East History - University of Oklahoma, editor in chief of Syriacomment.com

Dr. David W. Lesch
Professor of Middle East History and Chair, Department of History, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas  USA

Dr. Carsten Wieland
Historian, political scientist, and journalist – director of the German Konrad Adenauer in Colombia.

Dr. Louay M. Safi
Political scientist and Chairman Syrian American Council – Chicago, Senior Fellow at Georgetown University, Washington DC.

Dr. Najib Ghadbian
Associate Professor of Political Science and Middle East Studies – University of Arkansas .

Mr. Ammar Abdulhamid
Director – Tharwa Foundation

Dr. Patrick Seale
Paris-based British writer on Middle East affairs

Dr. Raymond Hinnebusch
Professor of International relations and Director of the Centre for Syrian Studies at the University of  St. Andrews University, Scotland.

Dr. Steven Heydemann
Professor of political science at Georgetown University - Vice President - Grants and Fellowships Program, USIP – Washington.

Professor Fred H.Lawson
Professor Government Department Head,Mills College, Oakland, CA.

Dr. Mazen Hashem
Adjunct Professor of Sociology - University of Southern California, USA. His research focuses on Muslim minorities in the West

Ambassador F rederic C. Hof
is a senior fellow with the Atlantic Council's Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East.