Giovanni Piazzese is an Italian freelance journalist and PhD candidate at the University of Birmingham, working on Egyptian politics and civil society movements. After several years of volunteer work in Guatemala, Mexico, and Haiti, he spent almost 4 years in Cairo where he regularly worked with Italian and non-Italian outlets.
Christian Emery is a Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Plymouth. He is the author of US Foreign Policy and the Iranian Revolution and has written extensively on US-Iranian relations. In February 2020 he will join the faculty at University College London.
Nicholas J. Wheeler is Professor of International Relations and Director of the Institute for Conflict, Cooperation, and Security at the University of Birmingham. His new book, Trusting Enemies: Interpersonal Relationships in International Conflict, was published in March.
Giuditta Fontana is a Leverhulme Fellow in the Department of Political Science and International Studies of the University of Birmingham. Her current research examines cultural reforms in post-conflict and fragile societies, with a focus on Northern Ireland, Lebanon, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Sierra Leone. Her first monograph is Education Policy and Power-Sharing in Post-Conflict Societies.
Gerasimos Tsourapas is Professor of International Relations at the University of Glasgow. He is the Chair of the Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration Section of the International Studies Association and the Editor-in-Chief of Migration Studies.
He is currently the Principal Investigator in three research projects: “The International Politics of Middle East Migration: Problems, Policy, Practice,” funded by a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award (2018-19); “The Politics of Forced Migration in the Mediterranean: Interstate Bargaining and Issue-Linkage in Greece and Jordan,” funded by a British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant (2017-19); and “Migration Diplomacy in the Eastern Mediterranean - Inter-State Politics of Population Mobility in the Middle East,” funded by a Council for British Research in the Levant Pilot Grant (2017-19).
Daniel Round, a graduate from the University of Nottingham, is a contributor to EA WorldView, with a focus on Turkish politics. He is a Labour Party activist and sits on the editorial board of The Clarion magazine.
Michelle Pace is Professor in the Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University, Denmark, and Honorary Professor of the University of Birmingham. She has published widely on European Union relations with the Mediterranean, Middle East, and North Africa affairs including her latest article, in the journal Political Psychology. She is Principal Investigator on the FACE (http://face-programme.dk/index.html) grant project on Syrian refugee minors in Denmark and Lebanon and is the Danish partner lead on an H2020 EU project SIRIUS (Skills and Integration of Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Applicants in European Labour Markets). Her edited volume (with Somdeep Sen) on Syrian Refugee Children in the Middle East and Europe was published on March 7, 2018.
Ruslan Trad is a freelance journalist and analyst with more than 10 years' experience in covering and analysis of MENA, Balkans, and Turkey regional issues. He is the co-founder of the De Re Militari Journal and the author of The Murder of a Revolution (2017).
