Ray Takeyh

Ray Takeyh

male
Yale University, The National Interest, Iranian-American, Alumni of the University of Oxford, University of California, Berkeley, The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer…Washington Institute for Near East Policy, middleeast, American Middle Eastern studies
Ray Takeyh is a senior fellow for Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. His areas of specialization are Iran, political reform...

Brian Whitaker

male
University of Westminster, journalist, British, middleeast, the guardian, Westminster University
Brian Whitaker is a journalist for the British newspaper "The Guardian" since 1987 and its Middle East editor from 2000-2007. He has a degree in...
Stephen Zunes

Stephen Zunes

male, 53 years old
Institute for Policy Studies, Iraq War, Cornell University, University of San Francisco faculty, think tank, Temple University alumni…middleeast, Middle East Editor
Stephen Zunes is Middle East editor for Foreign Policy in Focus ( www.fpif.org ). He serves as a professor of Politics at the University of San...
Fouad Ajami

Fouad Ajami

male, 64 years old
Fouad A. Ajami, Johns Hopkins University, SAIS, Council on Foreign Relations, foreign affairs, lebanese…Middle East Quarterly, American Middle Eastern studies, middleeast, Middle East Forum, Director of Middle East Studies
Fouad A. Ajami, a Lebanese-born American neoconservative university professor and writer on Middle Eastern issues. In recent years, Ajami has been...
Cyrus The Great

Cyrus The Great

male
king of persia, military strategy, Hellespont, religion, indus river, Neo-Babylonian Empire…middleeast
Cyrus the Great, also known as Cyrus II of Persia and Cyrus the Elder, was the founder of the Persian Empire under the Achaemenid dynasty. As...

Bat Ye'Or

female
Eurabia, Islam-related controversy, islam, brandeis, Yale, U.S. Congress…middleeast
Bat Ye'or is a British writer specializing in the history of non-Muslims in the Middle East, and in particular the history of Christian and Jewish...
Haleh Esfandiari

Haleh Esfandiari

female, 69 years old
American Middle Eastern studies, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholar, American, Iranian-American, middleeast, Academic…Director, Middle East Program, Director of the Middle East Program, middle
Haleh Esfandiari is director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, where she had earlier been a...
Eric Margolis

Eric Margolis

male
Jewish, Paleoconservatives, Jewish person, American military, vietnam war, Libertarian…middleeast
Eric Margolis is an American journalist. He is a contributing editor to the "Toronto Sun" chain of newspapers, writing mainly about the Middle...
Kenneth Pollack

Kenneth Pollack

male, 43 years old
Kenneth Michael Pollack, National Security Council, intelligence, cia, middleeast, Military…Near East
Kenneth Michael Pollack (born 1966) is a noted former CIA intelligence analyst and expert on Middle East politics and military analysis. He has...
Andrew Cockburn

Andrew Cockburn

male, 62 years old
New York Times, The O.C, Rumsfeld His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy, socialist, Leslie Cockburn, The War We Left Behind…middleeast
Andrew Cockburn (pronounced) is an Irish journalist who has lived in the United States for many years. Born in London in 1947, Cockburn grew up in...