<font class="Apple-style-span" face="helvetica" color="#000000"><br></font><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font size="3" face="helvetica" color="#000000">Ismaël Abdallah is a graphic designer based in Geneva. He worked as an intern for Abake studio in London and Bidoun Magazine in New York. He is now back in Geneva where he launched the graphic design studio called AMI together with two colleagues (www.amiamiami.ch).</font></p> <p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="helvetica" color="#000000"><br> </font></p> <p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="helvetica" color="#000000"><font size="3">Clement Girardot is a French freelance journalist. He writes feature stories about social, cultural and environmental topics for Swiss and French media. After being based for two years in Istanbul (lebainturc.blogspot.com), he moved to Tbilissi, Georgia, where he currently lives. </font> </font></p> <p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="helvetica" color="#000000"><br> </font></p> <p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font color="#000000"><font size="3" face="helvetica">Jenny Gustafsson is a political scientist who has been based in Beirut for over two years. She currently works as an independent reporter, covering politics, society and culture from across the Middle East.</font></font></p> <p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="helvetica" color="#000000"><br> </font></p> <p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font size="3" face="helvetica" color="#000000">Isabelle Mayault is a freelance journalist. She has been writing about political and social issues in Lebanon for the past year and a half. She also wrote about Egypt and Syria. She will be moving to Algeria in January 2012.</font></p> <p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="helvetica" color="#000000"><br> </font></p> <p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="helvetica" color="#000000"><font size="3">Micheline Tobia is a MA student in International Relations at the American University of Beirut. She is </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">currently writing her thesis about Turkish foreign policy and collaborating to the Lebanon-based feminist collective Nasawiya. She was raised in Saudi Arabia. </span></font></p>