Diana Allan is an associate professor of anthropology at McGill University. She is a filmmaker, codirector of the Critical Media Lab and cofounder of the Nakba Archive, which has documented histories of the 1948 expulsion with Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. Allan holds a Canada Research Chair in the anthropology of living archives.
Amahl Bishara is a professor of anthropology at Tufts University. She is author of Crossing a Line: Laws, Violence, and Roadblocks to Palestinian Political Expression (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022) and Back Stories: U.S. News Production and Palestinian Politics (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013).
Ghousoon Bisharat is editor in chief of +972 Magazine, as well as a strategic communications and international cooperation expert. She has more than twenty years of experience working with leading international broadcast news outlets and the European Union.
Sherif Mansour is an Egyptian American democracy and human rights activist. Until spring 2024, he was Middle East and North Africa coordinator at the Committee to Protect Journalists, and before that, he worked with Freedom House in Washington, DC. In 2010, Mansour cofounded the Egyptian Association for Change.
Mahmoud Mushtaha is a Palestinian journalist and humanitarian worker. His writings have appeared in the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, the New Arab, +972 Magazine, Revista Contexto, and the Globe and Mail. He is an assistant manager and contributor to We Are Not Numbers.
