Thalia Rahme is a video producer in Beirut, Lebanon for a local television channel. She is also an active volunteer in the Global Voices community, including Global Voices in French and Rising Voices. You can follow her on Twitter (@Thalloula)
Mohammad alQaq is a visual communicator from Amman, Jordan currently working on a cultural blog Khobbeizeh. He is also part of the team of 7iber.com, where he works as a visual specialist, and one of their Digital Media trainers. You can follow him on Twitter (@moalqaq).
Lina Ben Mhenni is a Tunisian blogger [ar] and activist, and has been writing about the Tunisian blogosphere for Global Voices since October 2008.
Through the creation of a Facebook group and a blog [fe], she has led awareness campaigns about the recent case of a Tunisian student, Mohamed Soudani, who has been jailed for giving media interview.
Wissam is the founder of Ethiopian Suicides, a migrants rights blog focused on Lebanon which has been featured in CNN, CNN Arabic, the L.A. Times, the Guardian, El Mundo (Spanish), Angry Arab News Service, The Daily Star (Lebanon), and Now Lebanon. Wissam is also a contributing writer at Migrant Rights.