Nadine Abdalla is a Non-Resident Fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs. Tewfic Aclimandos has been research associate at the Chair of Contemporary History of the Arab world at the College de France since 2009. Amr Adly is currently a consultant at the Carnegie Middle East Center. Zaid al-Ali is Senior Adviser on Constitution Building for International IDEA. Ismail Alexandrani is a research fellow at the Arab Reform Initiative (ARI - Paris), France. Hala Bayoumi is a permanent fellow at Centre d'études et de documentation économiques, juridiques et sociales (CEDEJ), Egypt. Nathan Brown is a professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University, USA, and nonresident senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Gaétan Du Roy is currently research associate at the Institute for the Analysis of Change in Contemporary and Historical Societies (IACCHOS), University of Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium and at Centre d'études et de documentation économiques, juridiques et sociales (CEDEJ), Egypt. Patrick Haenni works as Middle East Senior Advisor at the Humanitarian Dialogue Center, Switzerland. Roman Stadnicki directs the Urban Studies Department at Centre d'études et de documentation économiques, juridiques et sociales (CEDEJ), Egypt. Clément Steuer works at the Oriental Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and as an associate researcher at Centre d'études et de documentation économiques, juridiques et sociales (CEDEJ), Egypt. Marie Vannetzel is a post-doc researcher at CERI-Sciences Po, France. Ahmed Zaghloul Shalata has worked for Centre d'études et de documentation économiques, juridiques et sociales (CEDEJ), Egypt, and has written for various online publications in Arabic.