المدير العام للمركز العربي للأبحاث ودراسة السياسات، ورئيس مجلس أمناء معهد الدوحة للدراسات العليا. مفكر وباحث عربي معروف، نشر الدكتور عزمي بشارة مئات الأوراق والدراسات والبحوث في دوريات علمية بلغات مختلفة في الفكر السياسي والنظرية الاجتماعية والفلسفة، ومن أبرز مؤلفاته: المجتمع المدني: دراسة نقدية (1996)؛ في المسألة العربية: مقدمة لبيان ديمقراطي عربي (2007)؛  الدين والعلمانية في سياق تاريخي (جزآن في ثلاثة مجلدات 2011-2013)؛ في الثورة والقابلية للثورة (2012)؛ الجيش والسياسة: إشكاليات نظرية ونماذج عربية (2017)؛ مقالة في الحرية (2016)؛ الطائفة، الطائفية، الطوائف المتخيلة (2017)؛ في الإجابة عن سؤال: ما السلفية؟ (2018)؛ تنظيم الدولة المكنى 'داعش': إطار عام ومساهمة نقدية في فهم الظاهرة (2018)؛ في الإجابة عن سؤال ما الشعبوية؟ (2019)؛ والانتقال الديمقراطي وإشكالياته: دراسة نظرية وتطبيقية مقارنة (2020)، ومنها كتبٌ أصبحت مرجعيةً في مجالها. يجري حاليًّا ترجمة العديد من كتبه لنشرها باللغة الإنكليزية، وسيصدر قريبًا كتابه الطائفة، الطائفية، الطوائف المتخيلة باللغة الإنكليزية عن دار نشر جامعة أكسفورد وهيرست.

كما أنجز بشارة عملًا تأريخيًا تحليليًا وتوثيقيًا للثورات العربية التي اندلعت في عام 2011، ونشره في ثلاثة كتب هي: الثورة التونسية المجيدة (2011)؛ سورية درب الآلام نحو الحرية: محاولة في التاريخ الراهن (2013)؛ ثورة مصر (في مجلدين 2014). تناولت هذه المؤلفات أسباب الثورة ومراحلها في تلك البلدان، وتعد مادةً مرجعيةً ضمن ما يُعرف بالتاريخ الراهن، لما احتوته من توثيق وسرد للتفاصيل اليومية لهذه الثورات مع بعدٍ تحليلي يربط السياقات الاجتماعية والاقتصادية والسياسية لكل ثورة في ما بينها.

Professor of Philosophy at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies and Editor of Tabayyun, the Journal for Cultural Studies and Philosophy. Bahlul has taught at several universities, including Yarmouk (Jordan), Indiana-Purdue (US), Bir Zeit (Palestine), UAE (UAE), and Qatar (Qatar). His research focuses around the concept of identity and sameness, in the context of contemporary discussions of metaphysics and with reference to Leibniz and Aristotle. At a later stage, he began to study Islamic kalam and philosophy. His interest in Islamic philosophy expanded to include contemporary Arab and Islamic thought, with special reference to the impact of Western modernity on politics and society, and issues of women, democracy, and human rights.

 Researcher and editorial secretary for Tabayyun Journal at the ACRPS. He holds an MA in Modern and Contemporary Western Philosophy from the University of Algiers 02. His research interests focus on the issues of philosophy of religion and the sacred, Hermeneutics, phenomenology, existential psychotherapy, and contemporary existential philosophy.

Associate Professor in the School of Social Science and Humanities at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. Previously, he worked at several Arab and foreign universities and as an Academic Researcher. He is a practicing literary and art critic and curator, and has written a number of literary works. He has helped initiate various cultural and intellectual projects in the university context and elsewhere. His main research fields are materiality, language, ideology, plasticity, and aesthetics. Specific areas he has addressed include colonial contexts, especially the Arab-Islamic and the Palestinian ones. 

Professor of Philosophy at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Kassab taught and carried out research in Lebanon, Germany and the United States. Her research interests focus on European and non-European culture philosophy, contemporary and modern Arab thought, questions of critique and enlightenment, questions of intellectual and philosophical independence and modern Arab historiography.

Professor of Modern Arabic and Comparative Literature. He studied English and Comparative Literature at the American University in Cairo and the University of Texas in Austin. He taught Arabic and Comparative Literature at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London before joining the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. He was Professor of American and World Literature at the University of Texas. His research interests focus on Arabic and comparative literature, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, translation studies, literary theory, modern philosophy, and hermeneutics.

​Researcher at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and responsible for running the Center's Research Department. He has written or contributed to more than 30 books and worked in many research areas linked to modern Arab thought and modernity, education and human development, development and demographics, Syrian foreign migration, and development forecasting studies. In Syria, he worked for many national and international bodies and as Director and Consultant for the UNDP in Syria.

Professor of Comparative Literature at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. He worked as Assistant Professor at the Arabic Studies Department of the Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the Philipps University of Marburg, Germany. His research focuses on modern and contemporary Arabic literature; the new aesthetics of resistance in contemporary Arab literature and art; Arabic literature as a medium for collective memory; the influence of Kafka and Brecht on Arab literature; and dealing with encountering Europe and intellectuals' negotiating with modernity in Arabic literature. ​

Professor of Philosophy at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, he worked as a Teacher at the Académie de Versailles, and an Assistant Researcher at CNRS. From 1984 he was Assistant Professor at the University of Tunis, then Lecturer at the University of Kairawan (1998-2003), before his promotion to full Professor at the University of Tunis Manar in 2003. His research interests focus on the history of classical and modern philosophy (including the Enlightenment of the 17th and 18th centuries), political philosophy (social contract, civil society, state), and history of intellectual systems (Nahda and modern Arab reception of the Enlightenment).

Professor and Head of the Philosophy Program at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. He was Professor in the Philosophy Department, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Mohamed V University, Rabat, His research focuses on Islamic philosophy and Arab thought, especially the philosophy of Ibn Rushd. His major works include: "Yes and No: The Open Thought of Ibn Arabi"; "The Islamic Mind between Cordoba and Isfahan"; "For a Polyphonic Modernity"; "Workshops on Philosophies: Rights, Culture, Politics, and Religion"; and "The Dialectic of the Mind and the City in Contemporary Arab Philosophy".

Professor and Head of the Comparative Literature Program at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. She combines interdisciplinary specializations in comparative literary theory, discourse analysis, cultural criticism, gender studies, cinema, and media. She is currently working on three research projects: "Australia's Multilingual Literary Heritage: The Contribution of Arab Australians in Arabic and English"; "Modernity in the Works of Ameen Rihani, Mayy Ziade and Kahlil Gibran: A Comparative Perspective"; and "Modernity, Women and the City: Representations of Women and Beirut in Lebanese Film".