Bob Woodward is an associate editor of The Washington Post, where he has worked since 1971. He has shared in two Pulitzer Prizes, first in 1973 for the coverage of the Watergate scandal with Carl Bernstein, and second in 2003 as the lead reporter for coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Read more.

N. R. Kleinfield, a former longtime member of The Times’s Metro staff, is a freelance writer and author of eight books. He was one of the writers on the “How Race Is Lived in America” series that won a Pulitzer Prize and Polk Award. He was the lead writer on the diabetes series that was a Pulitzer finalist. He is the author of eight nonfiction books, and has written for a number of national magazines, including Harper’s, The Atlantic, Esquire, Rolling Stone and The New York Times Magazine. Read more.

Julian Sher is the Senior Producer of CBC’s the fifth estate, Canada’s premier investigative TV program. An award-winning investigative journalist in TV, print, radio and on the Web, he is a veteran TV documentary writer and director as well as an accomplished newsroom trainer and the author of six widely-acclaimed books. He was an investigative journalist for Canada’s two leading newspapers, The Toronto Star and the The Globe and Mail. His latest book is Somebody’s Daughter: The Hidden Story of America’s Prostituted Children and The Battle to Save Them. Publisher’s Weekly called the book “a thorough, deeply affecting study … [that] strikes a rare balance between revealing trauma and hope.” Visit his website.

American freelance journalist based in Lake Tahoe who writes about culture and psychology. Mike has published in Newsweek, The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, LA Review of Books, among others. Visit his website.

Nadia Bseiso is a Jordanian documentary photographer based in Amman. She completed a degree in photography from Florence, Italy in 2011, returning for a residency in Fondazione Fotografia in Modena, in 2015. She concentrates on long term projects, based on personal research in geopolitics, history, anthropology and environmental degradation. Selected as Time – Light Box female photographers to follow from around the world, March 2017. She was exhibited in both Jordan and Italy. Read more.

Azam Ahmed is the bureau chief for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, where he took over in the summer of 2015. Before joining The Times, Mr. Ahmed worked for the Chicago Tribune, covering urban affairs, education and crime. Read his bio.

Rachel Maddow is an American television host, political commentator, and author. Maddow hosts a nightly television show, The Rachel Maddow Show, on MSNBC. Visit her show’s page on MSNBC.

Clarissa Ward is a multi-award winning senior international correspondent for CNN based in the network’s London bureau. For more than a decade Ward has reported from front lines across the world from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Yemen to Georgia — during the Russian incursion in 2008 — and Ukraine. Read her bio.

Yassin Musharbash is deputy editor in the investigative department of German newsweekly Die Zeit. He is the son of a Jordanian father and a German mother. In his work, he has focused on issues of Islamophobia. In 2011 his novel Radikal was published, in which he discusses the violent potential of Islamophobic movements in Europe. Read one of his op-ed pieces.

Rukmini Callimachi is a correspondent for The New York Times, focusing on al-Qaeda and ISIS. Previously, spent seven years relentlessly providing readers around the world with gripping accounts of violence in West Africa as Correspondent & Bureau Chief for The AP. A native of Bucharest, she speaks English, French and Romanian and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting in 2009. Read her recent work.

Tara Todras-Whitehill is a documentary photographer who has been living in the Middle East for over 7 years. She was a staff photographer for the Associated Press and is now currently a freelance photographer represented by Polaris Images. She has worked for clients such as Vanity Fair, NY Times Travel, Glamour, the Abu Dhabi government, and the ICRC, among others. Her passion is women’s issues – trying to portray strong women changing the world around them. Visit her website.

Alessio Mamo is a Sicilian freelance photographer based in Catania. A graduate in Chemistry, Alessio preferred to travel rather than working in a laboratory lab. In 2007, he graduated in photography from the European Institute of Design in Rome. In 2008, he began his career in photojournalism focusing on contemporary social, political and economic issues. Alessio extensively covers issues related to refugee displacement and migration starting in Sicily, and extending most recently to the Middle East. Visit his website.

Kelly McEvers is an American journalist and a current co-host of NPR’s All Things Considered. Prior to her current position, McEvers was a foreign correspondent for NPR, in which role she covered momentous international events including the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq, Middle East uprisings associated with the Arab Spring, and the Syrian civil war. Read her bio on NPR website.

Nima Elbagir is a Senior International Correspondent based in CNN’s London bureau. Elbagir filed several exclusive reports on the story of Yehya Ibrahim, a Sudanese woman sentenced to death for committing apostasy — interviewing Ibrahim’s estranged family and her terrified husband. Read her full bio.

Christiane Amanpour a British-Iranian journalist. She currently is CNN’s chief international correspondent and anchor of the programme “Amanpour”. Visit her CNN profile page.

Lyse Doucet is a Canadian journalist who is the BBC’s Chief International Correspondent and an occasional Contributing Editor. She regularly anchors special news coverage from the field, covering major conflicts and natural disasters and interviewing world leaders for programs across the BBC’s networks. Read her BBC Blog.

Arwa Damon is an Arab-American, CNN Senior International Correspondent, based in Istanbul. From 2003, she covered the Middle East as a freelance journalist, before joining CNN in 2006. Read full bio.

Rania Abouzeid grew up in Australia and was schooled there, and is the daughter of Lebanese immigrants. She is an award winning print and television journalist covering Mideast politics, human and women’s rights, and conflict reporting. Visit her website.

Nir wrote an incredible investigation on labor and health violations in nail salons in New York and beyond. The research, writing and reporting for this story was incredible and her story is already making an impact in law reforms, stricter inspections and an investigation announced by the mayor of  New York after her story was published.

Sarah has also appeared on media outlets discussing her investigation and has done a great job. Follow her on Twitter @SarahMaslinNir

Rana Sabbagh is executive director of Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism, is a Jordanian career journalist, columnist and media trainer with 28 years of experience in print journalism throughout the Arab world. A former chief editor of the Jordan Times (1999-2001).

You can read her columns at http://www.alghad.com/index.php/crew/152953.html.

is an Arab-American journalist based in the Middle East and was the Gaza Correspondent for the English language channel Al-Jazeera. He is best known for his coverage of the Egyptian revolution. He is now an NBC Correspondent.

Jane Mayer joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in March, 1995. Based in Washington, D.C., she writes about politics for the magazine, and has been covering the war on terror. Recent subjects include Alberto Mora and the Pentagon’s secret torture policy, how the United States outsources torture (rendition), the prison at Guantánamo Bay, and the legality of C.I.A. interrogations.Read More

Favorite Book: The Dark Side

James Fallows is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and has written for the magazine since the late 1970s. He has reported extensively from outside the United States, and once worked as President Carter’s chief speechwriter.

Favorite Book: Breaking The News

Jackie Spinner is a journalist who worked for The Washington Post from 1995 to 2009.

Favorite Book: Tell Them I didn’t Cry

A biographer, author, international investigative reporter, and staff writer for The New Yorker. He has reported from war zones such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Uganda, Israel, El Salvador, Ireland, Lebanon, Iran, and throughout the Middle East. Anderson has also written for The New York Times, Harper’s, Life, and The Nation. Anderson is renowned for his numerous profiles of political leaders, including Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, and Augusto Pinochet.

Favorite Book: The Fall of Baghdad

The man with all the questions”. One of the most inspiring journalists and interviewers I have met. He is founder of The New Arab Debates. He was also Chairman of the Doha Debates. Tim is an award-winning former BBC foreign correspondent, and presenter of HARDtalk, the daily half-hour interview programme for BBC World and BBC News 24.

The New Arab Debates – Books by: Tim Sebastian

Anthony Shadid was a foreign correspondent for the New York Times. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 2004 and again in 2010 for his dispatches from Iraq. He was a finalist in 2007 for his coverage of Lebanon. He died while on assignment and was one of the best Mideast reporters. Read more.

Favorite Book: Night Draws Near

Author and has been a New York Times journalist since 2000. During a stint in 1994, he was editor in chief ofDetails magazine.Leland was also a senior editor at Newsweek, an editor and columnist at Spin magazine, and a reviewer for Trouser Press. Read his work

Janine di Giovanni is one of Europe’s most respected and experienced reporters, with vast experience covering war and conflict. Her reporting has been called “established, accomplished brilliance” and she has been cited as “the finest foreign correspondent of our generation Learn More

Great journalist and writer who has been the Paris bureau chief for The New York Times since 2008. Erlanger joined the Times in September 1987. 2002 – Shared Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting with other staffers of The New York Times for work on Al Qaeda.

The National’s correspondent in the Middle East, Phil Sands is a good friend and colleague who does impeccable work in the field and research for his stories.

Marie Catherine Colvin was an award-winning American journalist who worked for the The Sunday Times from 1985 until her death. She died while covering the siege of Homs in Syria.
The most recent book published on Marie Colvin is: On the Front Lines

New York Time’s San Francisco bureau chief, Nori was sent to do a series of humanitarian long features on Syrian refugees. I had the pleasure to work with Nori. He has an eye for details and is also great in interviewing and writing.

I recently met Don in Amman for his work on the Out of Eden project for National Geographic magazine. He has traveled to 65 countries over the past three decades, working as a writer and editor for National Geographic magazine.

Chris Hedges spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans for the New York Times.
You can read his collection of Truthdig Columns at: Learn More
Favorite book: War is a Force that Gives us Meaning

Anna Politkovskaya was a Russian investigative journalist who was mostly known for her fearless dispatches from Chechnya, Russia. Her works and books covered range of topics such as human rights abuses, brutality in the army, the failure of judicial system, problems in the Caucasus and struggling democracy in Russia. Anna was murdered on October 7, 2006 as she was entering her house. Prior to her murder, she admitted facing intimidation and harassment from Russian authorities, including the authorities in Chechnya, due to her outspoken criticism of government policy and action in the region.
Is journalism worth dying for? Final Dispatches from Anna Politkovskaya includes her articles written for Novaya Gazeta about Chechen conflict, specifically about the treatment of the Chechen refugees in Russia, numerous abductions in the region and about people whose lives were directly affected by this war.