Marc Lynch is associate professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University. He is cochair of the Institute for Public Diplomacy and Global Communications, and next year will become director of the Institute for Middle East Studies. 

He publishes frequently on the politics of the Middle East, with a particular focus on the Arab media and information technology, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, and Islamist movements. His most recent book, Voices of the New Arab Public: Al-Jazeera, Iraq, and Middle East Politics Today, was selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Book. 

Lynch began writing his influential Middle East politics blog Abu Aardvark under a pseudonym in 2002, and began blogging under his own name in the spring of 2005. Despite (or perhaps because of) the quirky name, Abu Aardvark gained a wide following among Middle East policy professionals, journalists, and academics.

Mohamad Bazzi , who served as Newsday's Middle East Bureau Chief from 2003 until 2007, was the paper's lead writer on the Iraq war and its aftermath, and set up Newsday bureaus in Baghdad and Beirut. He now teaches journalism at New York University and served as the 2007-08 Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.

He has written extensively about regional politics, Sunni-Shiite tensions and militant Islam. He also covered the wars in Afghanistan and Lebanon, as well as the Palestinian uprising. Last year, he won the Arthur Ross Award for Distinguished Reporting and Analysis on Foreign Affairs presented by the American Academy of Diplomacy.

Evgeny Morozov is an online media and digital activism expert from Belarus. He is writing a book on how the Internet influences civic engagement and regime stability in authoritarian and semi-authoritarian societies such as China, Egypt, Russia, and Venezuela. He is focusing on the unanticipated consequences of increased Internet usage, including nationalist activism and the dampening effects of new online social freedoms on political engagement.

Morozov has written on new media and technology for numerous publications, including the Economist, International Herald Tribune, Open Democracy, Le Monde, Newsweek, Slate, and Foreign Policy. He also blogs on the Foreign Policy website at Net.Effect.

He is currently a member of the OSI Information Program sub-board. He will be based at the Open Society Institute's New York office during the term of the fellowship.