Mudawi Ibrahim Adam

Mudawi Ibrahim Adam is the founder and Chairman of the Sudan Social Development Organization (SUDO).
Under his leadership, SUDO has grown to be the largest Sudanese NGO, implementing projects include water and sanitation, education support, and health and nutrition projects. For exposing the Sudanese government's role in massive violations of human rights in Darfur, Dr. Mudawi was detained for seven months in 2004 and again in January 2005.
During imprisonment, he went on a hunger strike to protest being held in solitary confinement without being charged or provided access to a lawyer, his family or medical attention.

Bassem Eid

Bassem Eid is the Founder and Director of Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group (PHRMG). The PHRMG is a non-partisan human rights organization dedicated to exposing human rights violations and supporting a democratic and pluralistic Palestine. From 1989-1996, Mr. Eid worked as a Senior Field Researcher for B'Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories. In 1999 he was awarded the International Activist Award by the Gleitsman Foundation in the USA. He currently lives in Shuafat
Refugee Camp in East Jerusalem.

Amir Abbas Fakhravar

Amir Abbas Fakhravar is an Iranian writer, journalist and has been a student leader for more than a decade. He was a political prisoner who spent over five years in prison for his writings, interviews and role in the student movement. He suffered years of torture in jail, including the torture described by Amnesty International as “white torture.” He is an honorary member of English PEN Club, PEN Club Canada, and International PEN Club. He is the founder of the Confederation of Iranian Students and the leader of Independent Student Movement.

Farid Ghadry

Farid Ghadry was born in Aleppo in northern Syria and grew up between Aleppo, Damascus, and Beirut.
He worked for EG&G, Intertech, and the International TechGroup. He has testified in the United States Congress on extremism and freedom in his capacity as the President of the Reform Party of Syria. He also spoke at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Johns Hopkins University (SAIS), Harvard University, the European Parliament, the French Parliament, and the Belgian Senate. He is a member of the Committee on Present Danger. He holds a B.A. from American University in finance and marketing.

Saad Eddin Ibrahim

Saad Eddin Ibrahim is the founder and chairman of the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies and a professor of political sociology at the American University in Cairo. He also serves as Secretary General of the Egyptian Independent Commission for Electoral Review, is a member of the Club of Rome, a trustee of the Arab Thought Forum, and the President of the Egyptian Sociologists Association. He was arrested in 2000 and sentenced to seven-years, but in 2003 Egypt's highest appeal court declared his trials improper and cleared him of all charges. Mr. Ibrahim has been one of the Arab world's most prominent spokesmen on behalf of democracy and human rights.

Jafaar M. Kassem

Dr. Kassem M. Jaafar is a British-based Defence and Strategy analyst with special interest in Middle Eastern and Islamic affairs. He was born in 1956 in Nigeria, to an emigrant Shiite family from South Lebanon. In 1977 Dr. Jaafar graduated from the American University of Beirut ( AUB ) with a degree in Middle Eastern and Islamic History, and later read Strategic Studies at the University of London Kings College.
He worked for many years as a producer and editor of current affairs , and as a defence and Middle East analyst at the BBC World Service and Arabic Service , and was also Defence and Diplomatic Editor at the London-based Pan-Arab daily AL-Hayat and its sister weekly AL-Wasat. In 1998 he became an advisor to the Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and was also a member of the Board of Directors of Al-Jazeera TV during 2003-2005.
Dr. Jaafar lives in London , and is married with four children.

Mithal Al-Alusi

Mithal Al-Alusi was born in Anbar, Iraq, on 1953. He is the president and the founder of the Iraqi National Party. He was A member of the Iraqi opposition since 1976 after escaping an execution order by Saddam Hussein. He was also a member of the Iraqi National congress until Sep-12-2004 after being expelled due to his participation in an international conference on counter- terrorism held in Israel. He Survived an assassination attempt On Feb-8th-2005, but His two sons (Ayman 30, a father of 3 children and Jamal 22) and a bodyguard was killed in that attempt. A former Director General of the education and cultural section at the supreme Iraqi National commission for the De Ba'thification, he was fired after making some pro-israeli statements. ON Oct- 2004, he founded the Democratic Party of the Iraqi Nation, A liberal, secular, Democratic Party that was changed soon to be The Iraqi Nation Party, which fights for the affirmation of democracy, freedom of speech and human rights in Iraq. He is a member of the new Iraqi Parliament.

Adil Aljuboory

Adil Aljuboory is the Deputy Secretary General of the Iraqi Nation Party, one of the most prominent secular political parties represented in the Iraqi Parliament. The Iraqi Nation Party which enjoys a continuously rising level of popularity amongst ordinary Iraqis adopts a policy of separation between state and religion in its approach to strengthen the foundations of democracy in Iraq. Mr. Aljuboory was born in Babylon in 1954 and holds a Bachelor degree in civil engineering from the University of Baghdad. Started his political activity in 2001 when he joined the Iraqi National Congress where he was involved in intelligence gathering before and after the fall of Saddam's regime. He joined the Iraqi Nation Party in 2005.