Campaigning for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights, Democracy, the Rule of Law and International Justice
Democracy Assistance Dialogue (DAD): Political Pluralism and Electoral Processes in the broader Middle East and North Africa
Mr Nicholas Abbott Regional Expert Engaging with the Islamic World Group, FCO
UK
Mr Ammar Abdulhamid Director DarEmar / Tharwa Project Syria
Dr Abdulkhaleq Abdulla Professor Faculty of Humanities and Social Studies - Ain University United Arab Emirates
Mr Abdel Rahman Abu Arafeh Director The Arab Thought Forum Palestine
Ms Selma Acuner Program Officer TESEV's Foreign Policy Program Turkey
Mr Mensur Akgün Program Director TESEV's Foreign Policy Program Turkey
Mr Ezeddine Al Ashbahi Chair HRITC Yemen
Dr Wajeeha Sadeq Al- Baharna Board Member Al Tajeed Cultural and Social Society Bahrain
Ms Rana Ahmed Ghanem Al-Dubai Chief Cultural Division Unionist Popular Organization Yemen
Mr Abdul Karim Al-Eryani Secretary General People's General Congress Yemen
Ms Hatoon al-Fassi Professor King Saud University Saudi Arabia
Mr Khaled al-Hammadi Journalist/Sana'a Correspondent Al-Quds Al-Arabi, daily independent newspaper Yemen
Ms Jamila Ali Coordinator of DAD Program HRITC Yemen
Mr Abdulwahab Alkebsi Senior Program Officer for the Middle East and North Africa National Endowment for Democracy USA
Mr Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja President Bahrain Centre for Human Rights Bahrain
Mr Fouad Allam Journalist La Repubblica Italy
Imam Al Sadig Al Saddig Abdelrahman Al-Mahdi Chairman of the Umma Party Umma Party Sudan
Mr Mohamed Abdul Malik Al-Mutawakil Professor of Political Science Sana'a University Yemen
Mr Mohamed Al-Tayeb Chairman Committee for Human Rights, Liberties & Civic Organizations, Shura Council Yemen
Dr Abdelaziz al-Uwaisheg Former UN Official Saudi Arabia
Mr Khaled Alyemany Officer in Charge Ministry of Foreign Affairs Yemen
Mr Amin Baktiar Former Minister of Human Rights Iraq
Mr Daoud Barakat Board Member SHAML Palestinian Diaspora and Refugee Centre Palestine
Ms Anna Barducci-Mahjar Journalist Il Foglio Italy
Ms Amal Basha Chairperson Sister's Arab Forum for Human Rights Yemen
Mr Ali Belhaj Président Maroc 2020 Morocco
Ms Rhizlaine Benachir Vice coordinatrice Nationale, et élue municipale Souissi Rabat Jossour Forum des Femmes Marocaines Municipalité Souissi Rabat Morocco
Mr Noureddine Ben Braham MP Algerian Parliament Algeria
Mr Joseph Bolton Foreign Service Officer Engaging with the Islamic World Group, FCO UK
The Hon Emma Bonino MEP European Parliament Italy
Mr Massimo Bordin Director Radio Radicale Italy
Ms Amina Bouayach Vice-Président Organisation Marocaine des Droits de l’Homme Morocco
Mr Marino Busdachin Secretary-General Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation (UNPO) Italy
Mr Stefano Carluccio Director Critica Sociale Italy
Ms Rola Dashti Chair Kuwait economic society Kuwait
Mr Koen De Feyter Professor, E.MA Academic Coordinator European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC) Italy
The Hon Gianni De Michelis MEP European Parliament EU
Mr Gianfranco Dell'Alba Secretary General NPWJ Italy
Dr Elhabib Eddaqqaq Member Political Office of Constitutional Union Party/ Professor of Law Morocco
Mr Saad Dine El Otmani Secrétaire Général Parti de la Justice et du Développement Morocco
Mr Abdellah El Oualladi Président Organisation Marocaine des Droits Humains Morocco
Ms Hoda El-Khatib Lawyer - Professor at Saint Joseph University Organisation for Civil Act Lebanon
Mr Hassan Elsawaf Businessman Khaldun Centre for Developmental Studies Board Egypt
Dr Reza Eslami Soema Assistant Professor UNESCO Chair for Human Rights, Peace and
Democracy, Faculty of Law, Shahid Beheshti University,
Tehran, Iran
Mr Said Essoulami Executive Director Centre for Media Freedom, Middle East and North Africa
Morocco
Dr Munira A Fakhro Associate Professor University of Bahrain Bahrain
Mr Mohamed Farid-Hassanein Former Member of Parliament Egypt
Mr Niccolo' Figà - Talamanca Program Director NPWJ Belgium
Mr Horst Fischer President European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC) Germany
Mr David French Chief Executive Westminster Foundation for Democracy UK
Mr Farid Ghadry President Reform Party of Syria Syria
Mr Zeki Levent Gümrükçü Head of Policy Planning Department Ministry of Foreign Affair - Ankara, Turkey Turkey
Ms Sabiha Gundogar Program Officer TESEV's Foreign Policy Program Turkey
Ms Sanem Güner Program Officer TESEV's Foreign Policy Program Turkey
Mr Guy Haarscher Professor Université Libre de Bruxelles, EIUC Belgium
Ms Barbara Haig Vice President National Endowment for Democracy (NED) USA
Mr Gabor Halmai Professor EIUC Latvia
Mr Bahey Eldin Hassan Director Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) Egypt
Ms Barbara Ibrahim Regional Director Population Council, Cairo Egypt
Dr Saad Eddin Ibrahim Director Khaldun Centre for Developmental Studies Egypt
Mr Aboubakr Jamai Editor in Chief Le Journal Morocco
Mrs Shahida Nighat Jamil Barrister-at-law, Advocate, High Court of Sindh Former Federal
Minister of Law, Justice and Human Rights; and
Former Federal Minister of Environment, Local Government and Rural Development Pakistan
Ms Ghada Yusuf Jamsheer President of Women Violence Resistance Under Amnesty Supervision Women's Petition Committee Bahrain
Professor Habib Jenhani Professor Human Rights and Science College Tunisia
Mr Hisham Kassem Vice-Chairman and CEO Al Masry Al Youm – Daily Independent Egypt
Mr Salah Khalil Businessman Egypt
Ms Ellen Khouri Consultant and Trainer Human Rights and Democratisation Jordan
Mr Hussein Kneiber Correspondent al-Arabiya Belgium
Mr Wahid Labidi Political & Economic Specialist Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) Regional Office, US Embassy, Tunis Tunisia
Mr Gerard Philippe Latulippe Directeur Résident National Democratic Institute (NDI) Morocco
Morocco
Mr Jonathan Levack Program Assistant TESEV's Foreign Policy Program Turkey
Ms Miriam Mafai Journalist La Repubblica Italy
Mr Ziad Majed Project Coordinator IDEA "Democracy in the Arab World Project" Lebanon
Professor Mona Makram- Ebeid Adjunct Professor/President Political Science Department, American University in Cairo/ Association for Advancement of Education Egypt
Dr Riad Malki Director General Panorama, The Palestinian Centre for the Dissemination of
Democracy and Community Development Palestine
Mr Mohsen Marzouk Algeria Project Director Freedom House Tunisia
The Hon Edward McMillan-Scott Vice-President European Parliament EU
Ms Mariam Memarsadeghi Senior Program Manager, Middle East and North Africa Freedom House USA
Mr Allal Mourad Coordinateur general Non-Governmental Platform for the EuroMed Civil Forum Tunisia
Mr Ahmad Nader Nadery Commissioner Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission Afghanistan
Mr Aktham Naisse Lawyer, President of C.D.F Committees for the Defense of Democratics and Human Rights in Syria Syria
Mr Lapo Orlandi ERA Italy
Ms Francesca Paci Journalist La Stampa Italy
Mr Alireza Rabi Chair Middle East Citizens Assembly Iran
Ms Rend Rahim Francke Executive Director Iraq Foundation Iraq
Mr Gianni Riotta Journalist Corriere della sera Italy
Mr Walid Salem Coordinator Middle East Citizens Assembly (MECA) Palestine
Mr Sergio Scarantino Minister Plenipotentiary Ministry of Foreign Affairs Italy
Ms Laura Schulz Foreign Affairs Officer, Political and Women's Pillars Office of the Middle East Partnership Initiative, U.S. Department
of State USA
Mr Mustafa Sediqi Journalist Tolo TV Afghanistan
Dr Emad El-Din Shahin Professor American University in Cairo Egypt
Mr Ashur Shamis Editor, Founding Member Libya Human and Political Development Forum Libya
Mr Mohamed Zaki Mahmoud Shamseldin Secretary of Imam Al Sadig Al Mahdi Umma Party Sudan
Mr Hussain Sinjari President Iraq Institute for Democracy Iraq
Mr Jourchi Slaheddine Vice President Tunisian League of Human Rights Tunisia
Mr Raji Sourani Director Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Palestine
Mr Roberto Spagnoli Journalist Radio Radicale Italy
Mr Antonio Spinelli Senior Program Officer, Electoral Processes International IDEA Sweden
Mr Sadeq Jawad Sulaiman Former Ambassador to Washington Oman
Mr George Ulrich Secretary General European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC) Denmark
Mr Diego Vecchiato Director, International Relations Regione Veneto Italy
Mr Pierluigi Vigna Journalist Corriere Magazine Italy
Ms Tammy Wincup Foreign Affairs Officer Office of the Middle East Partnership Initiative, U.S. Department of State USA
Professor Mohammed Zahi Mogherbi Professor of Political Science Garyounis University in Benghazi Libya