محمد أنوار السادات

Muhammad Anwar al-Sadat heads the Reform and Development Party as an elected representative in Egypt’s Parliament. A nephew of the late Anwar al-Sadat, famed for signing the Camp David Accord that established peace with Israel, Muhammad al-Sadat has been a strong advocate for reform within Egypt and a true peace between peoples in the broader Middle East.

سامي النصف

Sami al-Nesf is a former Kuwaiti Minister of Information. Resident in Kuwait City, he has been a trailblazing voice in the Gulf publicly calling for the establishment of full civil relations with Israel.

سعيدة عقربي

Saida is a member of the Economic, Social and Cultural Council of the African Union, representing North Africa. She also sits on the Pan-African Parliament representing Tunisia. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a Masters Degree in Public Health.

وسام بساندوه

Wesam Basindowah is a professor of political science and head of the Council of Trustees for the Arab Initiative for Development. Dr. Basindowah obtained her doctorate in international relations from Cairo University. In addition to her academic career, she heads the Arab Initiative for Education and development, an NGO founded in 2012 which seeks to combat violence and extremist ideology and promote social peace within Arab countries suffering from social schisms.

مصطفى الدسوقي

Residing in London, Dessouki edits Saudi Arabia’s flagship news magazine, Al-Majalla. He serves as Director of Arab Communications for the Center for Peace Communications as well as media relations director for the Union of Egyptians in Europe.

عيسى العربي

Issa al-Arabi heads Bahrain's “Arab Federation for Human Rights.” In a July interview on the French-language Arabic broadcast Monte Carlo International, he conveyed his intention to visit Israel.

محمد دجاني

Mohammed Dajani is the founder of the Wasatia movement and director of the Wasatia Graduate Academic Institute. Resident in East Jerusalem, he won international recognition for his efforts to instill Holocaust awareness among Palestinian youth.

قيصر السلطاني

Kaiser al-Sultany is the editor in chief of the European Observatory to Combat Radicalization and Terrorism. Born and raised in Baghdad, he emigrated to the Netherlands 25 years ago, where he still resides. A journalist by education, he has worked as a correspondent for numerous Iraqi and Arab TV channels. Al-Sultany has also cultivated deep ties to the Iraqi-Jewish diaspora community in Europe and has been a principled advocate for the repairing the fractures between them and their ancestral homeland.

نعمان الشعري

Residing in Tunis, Chaari is a popular poet, writer, and liberal activist.

أحمد سالم

Ahmed Salim is the managing editor of the politics section of Sada ‘l-Balad, a popular Egyptian satellite channel, and former director of Dream TV. He has a distinguished career in journalism, having headed the 'Political Islam' desk at the Al-Watan and al-Bawabah daily newspapers.

عبدالله الصوالحة

Residing in Amman, Sawalha leads the country’s Center for Israel Studies. No stranger to Israel, he has been isolated from the broader region. His presence on the Arab Council will help spread his Center’s model to other countries in the region.

جاسم محمد

Jassem Muhammad is the director of the European Centre for Counterterrorism and Intelligence Studies, where he also serves as a senior researcher. The author of nine books, he is an internationally recognized expert in the field of counter-terrorism and intelligence. Iraqi by birth and German by residence, he holds degrees from Cambirdge University in National Security studies and Baghdad University in English literature.

مريم الأحمدي

Maryam al-Ahmedi is a social activist and NGO director focused on women’s rights. A resident of Abu Dhabi, she previously served as a social affairs researcher for the UAE Ministry of Interior.

سامي بعزيز

Sami Baziz is an Algerian journalist and editor at the Dzaïr TV channel. Resident in Algiers, he is active in efforts to preserve Algerian Jewish history and promote tolerance in his country generally. He has produced a series of video interviews about Algerian Jewish history on behalf of San Francisco-based JIMENA [Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa]. He holds an MA from Al-Jaza'ir University.

سناء وجيد علي

Sanaa is pursuing her PhD in social sciences at the University of Bremen. An author and civic activist, she has addressed conferences of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (Free Democratic Party) and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (Social Democratic Party).

نجيب الفريجي

Nejib Friji is a Tunisian diplomat, appointed in 2015 to serve as Director of the International Peace Institute’s Middle East and North Africa Regional Office in Manama, Bahrain. He formerly served as official spokesman for the United Nations missions in Yemen, Lebanon, and Iraq, as well as the Western Sahara. In July 2019 he was awarded the National Diplomatic Distinction Award by President Mohamed Ennaceur.

تيسير الآلوسي

Professor al-Alousi is a deep student of the classics of Arabic literature, in which he holds a PhD, MA, and BA from the University of Baghdad. Since relocating to the Netherlands, he has served as Chancellor of Averroes University, dedicated to preserving and transmitting the humanistic philosophy of its namesake. He is also a published playwright and an experienced theatrical director.

فريدة عباس

Farida Abbas is a world-renowned Iraqi vocalist with millions of fans in Iraq and across the diaspora. She is determined to restore the cultural traditions of the Jewish brothers Saleh and Daoud al-Kuwaiti -- the "George and Ira Gerswhin of Iraq" in the mid-twentieth century.

سكينة المشيخص

Residing in Dubai, Sukina Meshekhes is a full-time correspondent and anchor for the pan-Arab Al-Hurra channel.

سلوى سيف

Salwa Saif is an activist, entrepeneur, and healer. Living in Dubai, she manages the Al-Salam Meditation Center, organizing and conducting various workshops. She is a trained practitioner versed in several disciplines of alternative medicine.

محمد كمر

An Iraqi musician active for over 40 years, Muhammad Kumar has won numerous artistic competitions. Famed for his lyrical talent and mastery of the traditional Iraqi maqamat, Kamr has been invited to give lectures about Iraqi music at universities and cultural institutions the world over, including Harvard, Belfast University, al-Yarmouk University, RASA, and elsewhere. His style was greatly influenced by the pioneering Kurdish artist Anwar Qardaghi, and has trained countless Iraqi musicians himself.

حسان الشلغومي

A Tunisian imam resident in France since 1972, Hassen Chalghoumi has been a communal leader for decades. A prayer leader at the Daransi mosque and the head of Ittihad al-Shu'ub, an organization dedicated to promoting peaceful coexistence between religions. He has been active in promoting Israeli-Palestinian reconciliation and interfaith dialogue and lobbied his native Tunisia to pass constitutional amendments that would strengthen freedom of conscience and individual rights. He is the author of numerous books and articles, and is fluent in Arabic, French and Urdu.

اسامة سلمي

A stage designer by trade and a voracious reader and autodidact, Ousama envisions a joint Tunisian-Israeli technology project that would rescue his country's big cities from lethal flooding, now a routine occurrence in the country following rainstorms.

صالح حامد

Saleh Hamed, a native of northern Lebanon and a graduate of al-Jannan University with a degree in Islamic Studies and an MA in Islamic thought from al-Maqasid College, a Khatib in northern Lebanese mosques certified by Lebanon's Dar al-Fatwa. Founder and Head of the Jami'yyat al-Fikr wal-Hayat. Active in interfaith dialogue. Mr. Hamed is committed to the ideals of a civil democratic state that guarantees human rights as well as to peaceful coexistence between Muslims, Christians, and Jews.

نادية التركي

Nadia al-Turki is a prominent international journalist, writer, poet and academic. She writes in three languages, and aside from Arabic, is fluent in French and English. With a deep-rooted background in the media, she is a seasoned journalist, working for Al-Sharq Al-Awsat Newspaper, Al-Arab News, Al-Majalla and the Saudi Publishing and Research Company. She is currently President and Founder of the International Academy of Media and Diplomacy (IAMD). Her work has enabled her to build a wide network of influencers and to forge professional relationships within the diplomatic and media community. She is also the executive editor and founder of 7D news. While working in the political section of the Al-Sharq Al-Awsat Newspaper, she interviewed Arab and international figures in various fields. These include the late Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan, the Yemeni Prime Minister, the former Libyan Prime Minister, the President of NATO, the former Tunisian President, the former Portuguese President, the British Minister for Middle East Affairs, many officials and experts from the United Nations as well as many international organizations and universities from all around the world. Al-Turki regularly participates in radio and television programs as a political analyst.

اسماعيل محمد علي

A journalist and activist, Isma'il Muhammad Ali has had a distinguished journalistic career in Sudan for over thirty years. He obtained his BA in literature and journalism from Asyut University before working at a number of Sudanese, Gulf, and Arab newspapers, including Asharq al-Awsat, al-Hayat, and al-Siyasah. Since 1987, he has been a member of the Sudanese Journalist Syndicate in Khartoum.

عصام عبد الصمد

Living between Cairo and London, civil society activist Abdel Samad chairs the Association of Egyptians in Europe, an Egyptian government-recognized NGO. In 2012, he participated in the writing of Egypt’s new constitution. In London in 2017, he convened civic actors from Israel and seven Arab countries to publicly discuss prospects for regional integration.

اجلال غيتة

Eglal Ghita, a British-Egyptian national, is a solicitor in London. Both bilingual and bicultural, she stands poised to act as one of the Arab Council's leading voices in the media.