OMAR S. DAHI

Omar S. Dahi was born and raised in Damascus, Syria and completed his undergraduate studies in the USA. He got his B.A. in economics from California State University Long Beach and his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Notre Dame in 2006. He is currently an associate professor of economics at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. His main fields of research are in economic development, international trade, South-South economic relations, and political economy of development in the Middle East North Africa region.  Omar has been a visiting fellow at the Carnegie Middle East Center Beirut Lebanon, and serves on the editorial committee of MERIP and as a Researcher at the Arab Studies Institute.

FIRAT DEMIR

Firat Demir was born and raised in Ankara, Turkey and completed his undergraduate studies at Bogazici University in Istanbul. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Notre Dame in 2006. He is currently an Associate Professor in the department of economics at the University of Oklahoma (Norman, OK) and is an affiliate faculty at the Department of International and Area Studies. Firat also serves in the editorial board of the Review of Radical Political Economics and is an Associate Editor of the Review of Social Economy. His main fields of research include international finance and economic development focusing on the issues of financial globalization, South-South trade and finance, long run development and growth, political economy of development, and comparative economic development in the Middle East. Firat has been a visiting professor at Denison University, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and Koc University. Firat was also a Fulbright Fellow in Montenegro in 2015-2016, hosted by the Faculty of Economics at the University of Montenegro.