Dr. Azzam Tamimi - United Kingdom

Dr. Azzam Tamimi, a British Palestinian academic and political activist, is the Director of Institute of Islamic Political Thought in London, U.K. Born in Hebron, Palestine and raised in Kuwait, Dr. Tamimi is an expert on Islamic history and the revivalist movements through-out the history. He has authored a number of books on Islamic revival and thought, including "Rachid Ghannouchi: Democrat within Islamism."

Dr. Tamimi regularly publishes opinion pieces in the U.K. newspaper, the Guardian, with keen insights into the Middle Eastern related events. He is an executive member of the Muslim Association of Britain, a senior lecturer at Markfield Institute of Higher Education and an active member of the Stop the War Coalition.