The Debrief with Debra Shushan

Dr. Debra Shushan is a Middle East and US foreign policy expert. A senior resident affiliate at Georgetown's Center for Jewish Civilization, she’s taught at top colleges and directed Israel-Palestine policy & advocacy at Jewish non-profits. Yale PhD.

Activist, organizer. Author of Chop Wood Carry Water Daily Actions. Political content creator. @jesscraven101 on all socials.

Rabbi Executive Director, cultural commentator, and musician exploring Judaism, justice, race, spirituality, music, and public life with honesty, compassion, and hope.

Historian. Fireside chats with gloves-off leaders who fight fascism and the MAGA Murder Regime.

Joe Cirincione is a national security analyst and author with over 45 years of experience. I have been a congressional staffer, a program director, a philanthropist, an advisor the the State Department and three presidential campaigns. Now, I write.

Daniel Levy is the President of the U.S./Middle East Project and a former Israeli negotiator with the Palestinians at Taba under Prime Minister Ehud Barak and at Oslo B under Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

The Left Hook is a thoroughly opinionated and biased intellectual playground for people who enjoy political, cultural, and religious hot takes without corporate censorship and nonsense centrism.

Professor of History, Brown University

Trita Parsi is the Executive VP of the Quincy Institute and an award-winning author. Washingtonian Magazine has named him one of the 25 most influential voices on foreign policy. Noam Chomsky calls him "one of the most distinguished scholars on Iran"

I write on politics, governance, justice, and change in MENA. Executive Director of the Arab Reform Initiative, with offices in Paris, Beirut, and Tunis; former HRW and UN international lawyer and public policy expert.

Writer, musician, foreign policy analyst.

Progressive comms professional & political analyst specializing in media, messaging, & U.S. Middle East policy.

Middle East Institute Senior Fellow | Yale Peace Fellow | Political Analysis | Project Management | Security Management | Risk Management | Crisis Response and Lead. What I write here is my own views. https://mei.edu/person/jaser-abumousa/

Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) is a senior adviser at the International Crisis Group. He previously served for a decade as an attorney at the U.S. Department of State.

Political analyst and writer focused on Hungarian politics, democratic backsliding, European affairs, and geopolitics. Founder of The Hungary Report and Cartooning Politics Weekly.

Executive Director of Gulf International Forum - Professorial Lecturer at Georgetown University

Josh Paul is co-founder of A New Policy. He resigned from the State Department in October 2023 over U.S. complicity in Gaza. He previously held roles in Iraq, the West Bank, the Pentagon, and as a Congressional staffer.

A writer, director & peace activist from Tel-Aviv, living in NYC. After losing her aunt on Oct 7, Tamar co-founded Israelis For Peace to mobilize for a ceasefire & hostage deal, an end to the occupation & a shared Israeli-Palestinian future.