• Lara Deeb (Scripps College, USA)
• Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen (Copenhagen Uni., DK)
• Marc Lynch (George Washington Uni.,USA)
• Rola el-Husseini (Lund Uni., Sweden)
• Khalil al-Anani (Doha Inst. for Graduate Studies, Qatar)
• Kristin Diwan (Arab Gulf States Inst. in Washington, USA)