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Jeffrey Goldberg is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and a recipient of the National Magazine Award for Reporting. He authored the book Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror, which was hailed as one of the best books of 2006 by the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate, The Progressive, Washingtonian magazine, and Playboy. Goldberg is the recipient of the 2003 National Magazine Award for Reporting for his coverage of Islamic terrorism. He is also the winner of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists prize for best international investigative journalist; the Overseas Press Club award for best human-rights reporting; and the Abraham Cahan Prize in Journalism. He is also the recipient of 2005’s Anti-Defamation League Daniel Pearl Prize. Before joining The Atlantic in 2007, Mr. Goldberg was a Middle East correspondent, and the Washington correspondent for The NewYorker.
Dr. Vali Nasr is a Middle East scholar, foreign policy adviser and commentator on international relations whose book, The Shia Revival, examined the postwar sectarian violence in Iraq and the uprisings known as the Arab Spring and contributed to US policy formulated in response to those events. He is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and holds a PhD in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.