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​Azmi Bishara is the General Director of the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and a member of its Executive Board. A prominent researcher and writer, Bishara has published numerous books and academic papers in political thought, social theory, and philosophy, in addition to several literary works. He was Professor of Philosophy and History of Political Thought at Birzeit University, from 1986 to 1996. He also co-founded Muwatin, the Palestinian Institute for the Study of Democracy, and Mada al-Carmel, the Arab Center for Applied Social Research. Bishara was the principal founder of the National Democratic Assembly (Balad), a Palestinian-Arab party inside the Green Line, which supports democratic values irrespective of religious, ethnic or national identity. For four consecutive session, from 1996-2007, he represented his party as an elected member of parliament. In 2007, Bishara was persecuted for his political positions at the hands of the Israeli authorities, and currently resides in Qatar. He is the recipient of the Ibn Rushd Prize for Freedom of Thought in 2002 and the Global Exchange Human Rights Award in 2003.

Dr. Almasri is the Executive Director of the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies. Almasri, a Research within the Center's Policy Analysis and Research units, is also the Coordinator of the Arab Opinion Index.

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​​Dr. Almasri is the Executive Director of the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies. Almasri, a Research within the Center's Policy Analysis and Research units, is also the Coordinator of the Arab Opinion Index.

​Associate Researcher, Policy Analysis Unit Coordinator

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​Ayat Hamdan is an Assistant Researcher at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies. Prior to joining the Center, she was an instructor at Birzeit University in the Department of History and Archaeology. She has also worked as an assistant researcher in a number of university departments. She has several publications related to the Palestinian cause, the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Islamic movements, the non-governmental organizations, and international donor agencies involved in development. She holds a Master's in Arab-Islamic History from Birzeit University.

An assistance researcher at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and secretary of the journal Siyasat Arabia. His research interests relate to international and regional affairs in general and the Syrian situation in particular. He has published many peer-reviewed research papers and the book “The Virtual Public Sphere in the Syrian Revolution: Features, Orientations, and Mechanisms to Create Public Opinion”. He is also a contributor to the books “The Kurdish Issue in Syria: Present, History, and Legend” and “Backgrounds to Revolution: Syria Studies” published by the ACRPS.

Researcher at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS). His research interests focus on social issues within Syrian society. He received a Master’s in Sociology and Anthropology from the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies (DI).

​Wadha al-Hajri is a research assistant at the ACRPS. She holds a BA in International Affairs from Qatar University, where she also worked with the al-Jazeera for Children Program. She has participated in a number of international conferences on interfaith and women’s empowerment issues. Her research interests include the study of the Qatari national identity and the effect collective memory has had on its formation. She has also completed a number of professional development workshops with Qatar’s Supreme Council for the Family and its Permanent Committee on Elections, particularly in their “training of trainers” series.

​Chamseddin Alkilani is a researcher at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies. Alkilani is the author of a number of books and scholarly essays on culture and politics, including The Arab Image of Europe During the Middle Ages; The Image of the Black Peoples in Arab Culture; The Image of the Peoples of the Far East in Arab Culture; Transformation of Syrian Elites' Attitudes Towards Lebanon: 1920-2011 (published by the ACRPS, 2013), Sheikh Mohammed Abdo; Islam and Christian Europe from the 11th to the 16th Centuries, and The Continuous Return.

​Dr. Almasri is the Executive Director of the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies. Almasri, a Research within the Center's Policy Analysis and Research units, is also the Coordinator of the Arab Opinion Index.

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​Ayat Hamdan is an Assistant Researcher at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies. Prior to joining the Center, she was an instructor at Birzeit University in the Department of History and Archaeology. She has also worked as an assistant researcher in a number of university departments. She has several publications related to the Palestinian cause, the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Islamic movements, the non-governmental organizations, and international donor agencies involved in development. She holds a Master's in Arab-Islamic History from Birzeit University.

​Jamal Barout is an Associate Researcher at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, where he also is the Head of the Research Department. Barout has contributed or authored exclusively a total of 30 published books. Barout’s research work is focused on questions of modern Arab thought and modernity; education and human development; development and demographics; foreign migration from Syria; and development forecasting studies. He has worked for a number of governmental and international agencies in Syria, including as an Advisor to a number of projects run by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Syria; the UN Population Fund; and the International Migration Organization. Barout was the main author of “Syria 2025”, published in 2007 and the main author of the National Reference Report on the State of the Syrian Population. In addition, Barout has held positions at the French Institute for the Near East (IFPO) in Aleppo, where he was a Visiting Scholar from 2007 to 2010, and was a guest lecturer at St. Antony’s College, Oxford University in 2008 and was also a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Advanced Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris.

​Dr. Saifeldin Abdelfattah is a Researcher at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, where he is also the Coordinator of the Program on the Democratic Transition in the Arab Region. Abdelfattah earned his PhD from Cairo University in 1987, where he focused on Political Philosophy (Philosophy of Political Science), focusing on political theory. He later worked as a Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science at the same university and went on to faculty appointments at a number of other universities in the region, including Zayed University (Abu Dhabi, UAE) and Qatar Foundation. Dr. Abdelfattah has also been a Visiting Professor at a number of other universities across the world, including the International Islamic University of Malaysia. Latterly, Abdelfattah was the Director of the Political Studies Center at Cairo University and Deputy Director at the Center for Civilizational Studies and Cross-Cultural Dialogue at Cairo as well as the Director of the Center for Good Governance and Public Policy at Qatar Foundation.
Abdelfattah’s most important publications include: Political Renewal and Arab Reality (1989); The Unholy March: the Nationalization of Egyptian Religion (2005); Globalization and Islam: two Visions of the World. (All in Arabic). Abdelfattah has also contributed to a number of collected volumes, including Civil Society and its Intellectual Aspects.

​Haider Saeed is a Researcher at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, and the Deputy Editor in Chief of Siyasat Arabia, which is published by the ACRPS. Saeed also sits on the Academic Board of the Program on the Democratic Transition in the Arab Region. Saeed earned his PhD in Linguistics from Baghdad’s Al Mustansiriya University, with a thesis titled “The Phenomenological Foundations of Arab Linguistics Theory: an Enquiry into the Origins”. Saeed’s writing focuses on intellectual history, critical theory and politics. Saeed has contributed to the “National Report on Human Development in Iraq” for the 2009 and 2014 editions. He is also the author of The Politics of the Symbol and the End to National Culture of Iraq (2009) and Literature and the Representation of the World (2002). In 2008, Saeed was the supervising author of a report on “The Status of Social Sciences in Iraqi Universities”. He led a separate research team which completed a report on “Islamic Civil Society in Iraq”, in 2010. Saeed also reviewed the 2002 Arabic translation of Edward Said, part of the Routledge Series on Critical Thinkers and written by Bill Ashcroft and Pal Ahluwalia.

​Mourad Diani is an associate researcher at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Strasbourg in 2003, with a thesis on “Corporate Culture and Evolutionary Economics”. His fields of research include Evolutionary Economics, Socio-Economics and the Economics of Knowledge and Creativity. He is also involved in some philosophical issues related to the Theories of Justice and Democracy.
He has numerous book chapters and publications in peer-reviewed journals in Arabic, French and English, and he is referee for Arabian, European and American research programs and peer-reviewed journals.

​Chamseddin Alkilani is a researcher at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies. Alkilani is the author of a number of books and scholarly essays on culture and politics, including The Arab Image of Europe During the Middle Ages; The Image of the Black Peoples in Arab Culture; The Image of the Peoples of the Far East in Arab Culture; Transformation of Syrian Elites' Attitudes Towards Lebanon: 1920-2011 (published by the ACRPS, 2013), Sheikh Mohammed Abdo; Islam and Christian Europe from the 11th to the 16th Centuries, and The Continuous Return.

​Abdou Moussa Abdou is a researcher in Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, focusing on political development, democratic reform and preserving human rights in Egypt and the Arab Region. Along the last two decades, he offered consultancy to international assistance organizations including UNDP and Canadian International Development Agency, in projects related with public policy reform, and sustainable development.
Abdou gained interdisciplinary knowledge with specific focus to Arab region and its international relations, which compiles political change to social development, public policy reform, building good governance mechanisms, as well as political unification and regional studies.
Abdou conducted a number of researches about Egypt’s educational development. While working as Research Director with an Egyptian human rights organization, he delivered academic support to research teams working in areas of economic and social rights, as well as post-revolution democratic change in Egypt.
Currently, he is working on a book about Egyptian Revolution of Jan 25th. He had a Masters’ degree thesis in Political Science that studied the “European identity politics and its impact on Euro-Mediterranean relationships”.

An assistance researcher at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and secretary of the journal Siyasat Arabia. His research interests relate to international and regional affairs in general and the Syrian situation in particular. He has published many peer-reviewed research papers and the book “The Virtual Public Sphere in the Syrian Revolution: Features, Orientations, and Mechanisms to Create Public Opinion”. He is also a contributor to the books “The Kurdish Issue in Syria: Present, History, and Legend” and “Backgrounds to Revolution: Syria Studies” published by the ACRPS.

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Researcher at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS). His research interests focus on social issues within Syrian society. He received a Master’s in Sociology and Anthropology from the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies (DI).

​Emad Y. Kaddorah works as Head of Editing department at the ACRPS. He holds a Master’s in Strategic Studies, and has worked as a researcher and senior editor at a number of research centers, including the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research in Abu Dhabi (1998-2012), the Academic Center for Political Studies (1996-1997), and the Middle East Studies Center in Amman (1994-1996). He has authored a number of books and studies, in addition to developing concept papers for research projects, evaluating studies submitted for publication, editing books and studies, and being the managing editor. His published works include Turkey: An Ambitious Strategy and Constrained Policy, a Geopolitical Approach (2015); “The Conservative Democracy and the Future of Turkish Secularism” (December 2014); “Turkey until 2023: Internal Priorities and Relative Regional Retreat” (Fall 2014); “Flashpoint Ukraine: The Pivot of Geography in Command of the West’s Eastern Gateway” (July 2014); “The Turkish Model: Acceptability and Apprehension” (Fall 2010); Towards an Arab Security for the Red Sea (1998); The Future of International Policies toward the Middle East (1996); Political Effects of the Palestinian Autonomy Agreement (1995); and an M.A. dissertation entitled “The Strategic Regional Role of Turkey” (1993).

​Dr. Almasri is the Executive Director of the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies. Almasri, a Research within the Center's Policy Analysis and Research units, is also the Coordinator of the Arab Opinion Index.

Kamel Terchi is responsible for correspondence to Tabayyun.

An assistance researcher at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and secretary of the journal Siyasat Arabia. His research interests relate to international and regional affairs in general and the Syrian situation in particular. He has published many peer-reviewed research papers and the book “The Virtual Public Sphere in the Syrian Revolution: Features, Orientations, and Mechanisms to Create Public Opinion”. He is also a contributor to the books “The Kurdish Issue in Syria: Present, History, and Legend” and “Backgrounds to Revolution: Syria Studies” published by the ACRPS.

​​Haider Saeed is a Researcher at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, and the Deputy Editor in Chief of Siyasat Arabia, which is published by the ACRPS. Saeed also sits on the Academic Board of the Program on the Democratic Transition in the Arab Region. Saeed earned his PhD in Linguistics from Baghdad’s Al Mustansiriya University, with a thesis titled “The Phenomenological Foundations of Arab Linguistics Theory: an Enquiry into the Origins”. Saeed’s writing focuses on intellectual history, critical theory and politics. Saeed has contributed to the “National Report on Human Development in Iraq” for the 2009 and 2014 editions. He is also the author of The Politics of the Symbol and the End to National Culture of Iraq (2009) and Literature and the Representation of the World (2002). In 2008, Saeed was the supervising author of a report on “The Status of Social Sciences in Iraqi Universities”. He led a separate research team which completed a report on “Islamic Civil Society in Iraq”, in 2010. Saeed also reviewed the 2002 Arabic translation of Edward Said, part of the Routledge Series on Critical Thinkers and written by Bill Ashcroft and Pal Ahluwalia.

Hussein holds a PhD from the University of Florence, and is the author of a number of works covering international affairs. He is also the Managing Editor of Siyasat Arabiya.