Jürgen Todenhöfer is a German author, journalist, politician, and executive.
France has been a member of the United Nations (UN) since its foundation in 1945 and is one of the five countries, alongside China, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, that holds a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), which is responsible for maintaining international peace and security.
The American Academy in Berlin is a private, independent, nonpartisan research and cultural institution in Berlin dedicated to sustaining and enhancing the long-term intellectual, cultural, and political ties between the United States and Germany. Each year, the Academy's independent search committee nominates circa twenty fellows from among hundreds of applicants to pursue semester-long research projects at the Hans Arnhold Center, a historic villa on the shores of Lake Wannsee. Fellows, who come from the humanities, social sciences, public policy, and the arts, share their work with German colleagues and audiences at lectures, readings, discussions, concerts, and film screenings, which form the core of the Academy’s program of nearly 100 public events per year. The American Academy in Berlin has an office in New York City and its board of trustees is composed of several dozen influential leaders from German and American business, finance, culture, and academia.
The Inter-American Dialogue, also known as the Dialogue or IAD, is a U.S.-based think tank in the field of international affairs primarily related to the Western Hemisphere. Headquartered in Washington, D.C it intends to "foster democratic governance, prosperity, and social equity in Latin America and the Caribbean". The Dialogue's research areas focus on the rule of law, education, migration, remittances, energy, climate change and extractive industries.
The Union for the Mediterranean is an intergovernmental organization of 43 member states from Europe and the Mediterranean Basin: the 27 EU member states and 16 Mediterranean partner countries from North Africa, Western Asia and Southern Europe. It was founded on 13 July 2008 at the Paris Summit for the Mediterranean, with an aim of reinforcing the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (Euromed) that was set up in 1995 as the Barcelona Process. Its general secretariat is located in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean (PAM) is an international organization established in 2005 by the national parliaments of the countries of the Euro-Mediterranean region. It is the legal successor of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in the Mediterranean (CSCM), launched in the early ‘90s.
Ghassan Salamé is a Paris-based Lebanese academic. He served as the Lebanese Minister of Culture from 2000 to 2003. He was the Dean of the Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) and professor of International Relations at Sciences Po. Salamé served as the head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya from 2017 to 2020.
zenith is an independent German-language magazine which focuses on the Arab and Islamic world. The magazine is published quarterly and addresses politics, economics, culture, and society in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia as well as the Muslim world more generally.
Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha is a Scottish sociologist and cultural scientist, working in Germany.
Asiem El Difraoui is a political scientist, economist, and documentary director and producer of Egyptian-German descent. He focuses primarily on topics related to the Arab world, and is widely considered as a leading expert on Arab media in general and jihadism internet propaganda in particular.
Local Libya is a media platform created in 2016 by Libyan journalists and civil society activists, co-founded by Libyan expert and journalist Mirco Keilberth. It is hosted by Candid Foundation, a Berlin-based non-profit organisation. The platform publishes articles, photography and videos from a mix of professional writers and citizen journalists covering ordinary life in Libya. Workshops held in Tunisia have been used to improve the journalistic skills of Libyan reporters, on topics including photography, video making and social media. The website is published out of Tunis, Tunisia, and Berlin, Germany with a team of Libyan journalists, as well as Tunisian and German editorial staff.
Daniel Gerlach is a German author, journalist, publisher and Middle East expert. He is the current editor-in-chief of the German Middle East quarterly magazine zenith and director-general of the Candid Foundation.
Jugend Rettet is a non-governmental organization (NGO) from Berlin. Its goal is to save drowning persons at the Mediterranean Sea. Operations are conducted with the Iuventa, a ship that sails under Dutch flag. This ship was seized in August 2017 after suspicion of cooperation with migrant smugglers.
Stiftung Neue Verantwortung (SNV) is a German non-profit think tank based in Berlin that specializes in public policy related to technology's effect on society.
Claas-Hendrik Relotius is a German former journalist. He resigned from Der Spiegel in 2018 after admitting numerous instances of journalistic fraud.
Solmaz Daryani is an Iranian photographer and visual artist based in the UK and Iran. Her work is particularly known for exploring the themes of climate security, climate change, water crisis, the human identity and environment in the Middle East. Daryani is a member of Women Photograph and Diversify Photo.
Christoph Sydow was a German journalist who worked for Der Spiegel as a foreign correspondent in the Middle East.
Naseef Naeem is a Christian Syrian-German legal scholar specializing in Public and Constitutional law. He is an expert on legal and political affairs in the Middle East, Syria, and the Constitution of Iraq.
Verena Metze-Mangold is a German political scientist,. journalist, and the former president of the German Commission for UNESCO.
The Ludwig Erhard Foundation is a public policy organization founded in 1967 by West German ex-Chancellor Ludwig Erhard in Bonn.
