Pejman Abdolmohammadi is Senior Assistant Professor in Middle Eastern Studies at the School of International Studies at University of Trento (Italy). He is also the Academic Coordinator of NAMEPES Project. His main research areas are the security and politics of the Middle East, with a particular focus on the geopolitics of the Persian Gulf and the Iranian domestic affairs and foreign policy.
Ali M. Ansari is Professor of Modern History at the University of St. Andrews (UK) and founding director of the Institute of Iranian Studies. His research focuses on Iranian nation-building, social and intellectual history, ideology and myth, and Iran’s relations with the West.
Vincenzo Bove is Professor of Political Science in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick (UK). His research focuses on arms trade, civil-military relations, military spending, terrorism, and third-party interventions in civil wars.
Irene Costantini is a Research Fellow in International Relations at the University of Naples “l’Orientale” (Italy). Her research focuses on the politics of international interventions, and processes of state transformation in the MENA region, with a focus on Iraq and Libya.
Fawaz A. Gerges is Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and holder of the Emirates Professorship in Contemporary Middle East Studies. He was also the inaugural Director of the LSE Middle East Centre (UK).
Joel Gordon, editor of the International Journal of Middle East Studies since 2019, is a political and cultural historian of modern Egypt and the Middle East at the University of Arkansas (US). His research focuses on political change, popular culture, historical memory and mass media, with particular attention to Egypt and the cultural aspects of Nasserism.
Marco Pertile is Professor of International Law at the Faculty of Law and the School of International Studies at the University of Trento (Italy). His research interests include self-determination, recognition, international humanitarian law and the use of force.
José María Porras Ramírez is Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Granada (Spain) and Jean Monnet Professor of European Law. Among his several publications, he wrote about freedom of religion and migration law.
Birte Wassenberg is Professor in Contemporary History at the Institute for Political Studies (IEP) of the University of Strasbourg and member of the Research Institute for History Raymond Poidevin at the UMR Dynamiques européennes. She teaches on International Relations, Border studies, regionalism, the history of European Integration and Franco-German Relations.