Middle East & North Africa
Erik Leaver

Erik Leaver

Erik is the communications manager at IPS. Previously he served as a research fellow with the peace and security program and with the Foreign Policy In Focus project. Erik holds an MA in Latin American Studies from the University of New Mexico. He worked with the...

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Antonia Juhasz

Antonia Juhasz

Antonia Juhasz is a leading oil and energy expert. She is a Fellow of the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Juhasz is the author of three books: Black Tide: the Devastating Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill (2011), The Tyranny of...

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Sam Husseini

Sam Husseini is the communications director for the Institute for Public Accuracy. His articles on politics, foreign affairs, public policy, media, and pop culture have been published in The Washington Post, Newsday, The Chicago Tribune, The Nation, The Humanist, The...

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Mamoun Fandy

Mamoun Fandy

Dr. Mamoun Fandy is an Egyptian-born American scholar. He is President of the research group and think tank Fandy Associates. He is a senior fellow at the Baker Institute, the United States Institute of Peace and at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in...

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Ira Chernus

Ira Chernus

Ira Chernus is a professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His research focuses on the discourse of peace, war, foreign policy, and nationalism in the United States.

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Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky is an Institute Professor & Professor of Linguistics (Emeritus) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also a noted linguist, author and foreign policy expert.

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Frida Berrigan

Frida Berrigan

Frida Berrigan serves on the Board of the War Resisters League and is a columnist for Foreign Policy In Focus.

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Phyllis Bennis

Phyllis Bennis

Fellow Phyllis Bennis directs the New Internationalism Project at IPS. She is also a fellow of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. She has been a writer, analyst, and activist on Middle East and UN issues for many years. In 2001 she helped found and remains on...

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