A leading thinker in the Arab world also recognized as a courageous defender of human rights, free speech, and intellectual freedom. Professor Emeritus of Modern European Philosophy at Damascus University, he is a worldwide respected scholar and political commentator who has offered innovative, often controversial challenges to conventional narratives on issues surrounding Islam and the […]

Martín Böhmer is a Professor of Law at Universidad de San Andrés and at University of Buenos Aires. He serves as the Director for the Justice sector at the Center for the Implementation of Public Policies Promoting Equity and Growth (CIPPEC), and is Director Emeritus of the Association for Equality and Justice (ACIJ). He was […]

Prof. John Borneman has conducted fieldwork in Germany and Central Europe, and is currently engaged in research in Lebanon and Syria. He has completed projects on the symbolic forms of political identification, the relation of the state to everyday life, forms of justice and accountability, and on regime change. Currently he is working on an […]

Prof. Ishac Diwan is a leading international development economist with a formidable record of applied experience with the World Bank spanning more than two decades and encompassing direction of successful, ambitious initiatives most notably around issues of economic development related to commercial agriculture and natural resources, employment for youth, and protection of basic services. World […]

Prof. John Donohue epitomises far more than the meeting of East and West. A native of Worcester, Massachusetts, he was so much at home in Baghdad and Beirut that Lebanese and Iraqis from all hues and cries considered him very much one of their own. His scholarship is one of a kind: few if any […]