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Vicechairman of the Board:
 Radwan Ziadeh is a visiting scholar at the Carr Center for Human Rights at Harvard University for 2008-2009. He is an expert in human rights and the reform movement in Syria, not only as an academic and researcher, but also as an activist. Mr. Ziadeh is a founder and director of the Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies and Secretary of the Syrian Organization for Transparency. His previous positions and involvement include Senior Fellow for the Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program at the United States Institute of Peace, Editor for Tyarat magazine and researcher for the United Nations Development Program project Syria 2025. He has written articles for a number of magazines in Arabic, English, Spanish, and French. Mr. Ziadeh was named best political science researcher in the Arab world by Jordan’s Abdulhameed Shoman Foundation in 2004.
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Treasurer:
 Joshua Muravchik was recently a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He has been a member of the State Department’s Advisory Committee on Democracy Promotion since 2007, an adjunct professor at the Institute of World Politics since 1992 and an adjunct scholar at the Washington Institute on Near East Policy since 1986. Dr. Muravchik studies the United Nations, neoconservatism, the history of socialism and communism, the Arab-Israeli conflict, global democracy, terrorism, and the Bush Doctrine. He was formerly a member the Maryland State Advisory Committee of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights from 1985 to 1997 and a member of the Commission on Broadcasting to the People's Republic of China in 1992. He also held the position of Executive Director of the Coalition for a Democratic Majority from 1977-1979 and was an editorial board member of World Affairs and Journal of Democracy. Dr. Muravchik holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from Georgetown University and a B.A. from City College of New York.
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 Michele Dunne is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and editor of the Arab Reform Bulletin, a monthly online journal. Formerly a specialist at the Department of State and White House on Middle Eastern affairs, she holds a PhD in Arabic language and linguistics from Georgetown University. Her research focuses on Arab politics, human and civil rights, and U.S. policy.
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Diana Greenwald was previously the Director for the Tharwa Institute for Democratic Leadership (2006-2008). She holds a BA in Government from Georgetown University with joint minors in Arabic and Studio Art. Ms. Greenwald has studied Arabic in Syria and Morocco. |
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Founder:
 Ammar Abdulhamid is the founder of the Tharwa Foundation. For more information about him, visit the About the Founder page.
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