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Sayyed Ayad Jamal Al-Din
Sayyed Ayad Jamal Al-Din, a Shi'ite cleric, is an Iraqi MP for the secular list headed by former prime minister Ayad Allawi. He is currently serving on the Iraqi National Reconiliation Committee.

   Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed 
   Al-Arabiya TV director and former editor of Al-Sharq Al-Awsat

Magdi Khalil 
Magdi Khalil is an Egyptian-American human rights activist who heads the Cairo-based Middle East Freedom Forum, focusing on the protection of minority rights in Egypt.

Abd Al-Ansari
Dr. Abd Al-Hamid Al-Ansari is the former dean of the Faculty of Islamic Law at the University of Qatar.

Wajeha Al-Huwaider
Wajeha Al-Huwaider is a Saudi writer and journalist.

Abd Al-Muhsin Al-'Abikan
Prominent Saudi Sheikh Abd Al-Muhsin Al-Abikan is advisor to the Saudi Justice Ministry and member of the Saudi Shura Council.

Ahmad Al-Jarallah
Ahmad Al-Jarallah is editor-in-chief of the Kuwaiti daily Al-Siyassa.

Omran Salman 
Omran Salman is an American-Bahraini journalist and editor of the Arab reformist website www.aafaq.org.

Ali-Salem
Ali Salem is an Egyptian playwright, satirist, and columnist.

Ma’moun Fandy
Ma'moun Fandy is an Egyptian intellectual and columnist residing in the U.S.

Tareq Heggy
Egyptian intellectual Tareq Heggy is a petroleum strategist and writer.

Lafif Lakhdar
Lafif Lakhdar is a renowned Tunisian reformist intellectual who lives today in Paris.

Professor Sa’d Al-Din Ibrahim
Egyptian sociologist and human rights activist Dr. Sa'd Al-Din Ibrahim is a professor at the American University in Cairo and director of the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies in Cairo.

Dr. Shaker Al-Nabulsi
Jordanian-born reformist writer and researcher Dr. Shaker Al-Nabulsi based in the U.S.

Dr. Ahmad Al-Baghdadi
Progressive Kuwaiti author and lecturer Ahmad Al-Baghdadi teaches political science at the University of Kuwait.

Ahmad Al-Ruba'i
Ahmad Al-Rubai was a former Kuwaiti minister of education and columnist for the Arabic London daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat.

Raid Qusti 
Saudi journalist Raid Qusti is a columnist for the Saudi English daily Arab News.

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Dr. Abd Al-Hamid Al-Ansari, Former Dean of the Faculty of Islamic Law at the University of Qatar

 

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