Marlyn Tadros teaches Computer and Internet Technologies at the Arts Institute of New England in Boston. She was a Visiting Scholar at the Women's Department at Northeastern University and taught human rights in the Political Science Department. She was also a Visiting Fellow at the Human Rights Program at Harvard University. Prior to going to the US, she was Deputy director of the Legal Research and Resource Center for Human Rights in Cairo, Egypt, and was Executive Director of the National Steering Committee of the United Nations International Conference on Population and Development which took place in Cairo in 1994. Tadros served on the Board of Directors of Grassroots International, Boston, and has been appointed to the International Fellowships Panel of the American Association of University Women.

Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein Associate Clinical Professor in Human Rights at Columbia University. Prior to that, Rosenblum was the Associate Director of the Human Rights Program at the Harvard Law School since 1996. He was formerly Program Director for the International Human Rights Law Group and Human Rights Officer for the United Nations Centre for Human Rights. He has engaged in human rights research and field missions in Africa, Eastern Europe, and Asia. His most recent publications have addressed the conflict in Central Africa and the International Criminal Tribunal.

Denis J. Sullivan (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is currently Professor at the Political Science Department, NEU and head of the Middle East Center for Culture and Development. He was Chair of the International Studies Program at Bentley College. He was Chairman of the Dept. of Political Science at Northeastern University (NU) until June 03. A former Special Assistant to the President at Northeastern, Prof. Sullivan also serveed as Director of NU's International Affairs Program and is an Affiliate in Research at Harvard University's Center for Middle Eastern Studies.

Sullivan is the author of numerous articles and books, most recently Islam in Contemporary Egypt: Civil Society vs. the State, with Sana Abed-Kotob (L. Rienner, 1999) & "NGOs and Development in Egypt" (Middle East Insight, July 2001).

Sullivan is a consultant to the U.S. State Department on Islam and the Middle East as well as to the World Bank on its Palestinian NGO Project. Sullivan also is involved in local politics and community activism, especially as an elected member of the School Committee in Arlington, Massachusetts.

Barbara Lethem Ibrahim is the Population Council’s Regional Director for West Asia and North Africa, based in Cairo, Egypt. In that position she has developed programs for strengthening international links in the social science research community and encouraging comparative and multi-disciplinary studies in the Arab countries, Pakistan, Turkey and Iran. She was formerly a program officer for urban and gender programs in the Middle East office of the Ford Foundation and prior to that, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the American University in Cairo. Her publications include an analysis of public policy performance in Egypt and assessments of indigenous philanthropy in the Arab World. She has an MA from the American University of Beirut and A Ph.D. from Indiana University. Currently she is serving on the board of the Ibn Khaldoun Center for Development Studies, Egypt and The Research Ethics Review Board of the American University in Cairo.

Shalini Nataraj has been working on social justice and human rights issues for over 16 years, in India and the United States. She was Associate Director of the Reebok Human Rights Program and is a founder and the coordinator of the Boston Coalition Against Trafficking and Slavery, that is focused on developing a comprehensive response to aid victims of trafficking in the Boston area, educate about issues related to human trafficking, and mobilize action aimed at advocacy on this issue. Nataraj is currently the Program Director at the Global Fund for Women.

Fateh Azzam received LLM in International Human Rights Law from Essex University, Colchester, U.K. in 1992. He is currently Program Officer for Human Rights, The Ford Foundation office for the Middle East and North Africa, Cairo. From September 2003-2006, he was Lecturer in Political Science and Director of the Forced Migration and Refugee Studies Program, American University in Cairo. Azzam is currently Regional Representative for OHCHR in Beirut.

Fateh has contributed to the boards of several Palestinian, Arab and international human rights organizations and participated in human rights missions and projects by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch in Syria, Algeria, Morocco and elsewhere. Past work included directing al-Haq in Palestine, education and outreach at Oxfam America, Boston, and many years as a theater performer, choreographer and teacher. His writings on human rights and theater include Political Rights and the Practice of Democracy (Ramallah: Muwatin - Palestinian Institute for the Study of Democracy, 1995), and articles in Human Rights Quarterly, Nordic Journal of International Law, ICJ Review, Arab Journal for Human Rights, and elsewhere.

Beran is a Research Affiliate at the Middle East Center for Culture and Development at Northeastern University in Boston.

Lauri is an interactive media professional who has developed titles for clients including IBM (Networks division), IBM Fun and Games, Scott-Foresman/Addison-Wesley, Lancet Media, and others. She spent 14 years in television and radio as a news reporter and anchor before making the leap to new media. She has also worked as a Senior Research Manager conducting world-wide customer satisfaction surveys for major high-tech clients including Compaq, Dell, Cisco, IBM, and many others. In this capacity she built the first of its kind online customer feedback system for IBM. She is a member of the Massachusetts Interactive Media Council, the Theatre Communications Group and has served on the boards of Women in Communications, Inc. and a local chapter of the American Red Cross.