Back when it was s till an
unofficial NGO run as part of a publishing house, Tharwa was known as the
Tharwa Project, and was run in cooperation with a number of regional and
international advisers. This is the Tharwa Project Advisory Board at the time:
- Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Director of the Ibn Khaldun
Center, Cairo.
- Dr. Sadiq Jalal Al-Azm, Professor of Philosophy,
Damascus University.
- Dr. Gilles Kepel, l’Institut d’Études Politiques de
Paris.
- Dr. Yitzhak Nakash, Professor of History, Brandeis
University.
- Dr. Flynt Leverett, Visiting Fellow, the Brookings
Institution, Washington DC.
- Dr. Ugarit Younan, Movement for Peoples Rights,
Beirut.
- Dr. Antoine Nasri Messarra, Sociology Professor, the
Lebanese University, Cofounder of the Lebanese Foundation for Permanent
Civil Peace.
- Dr. Samir Altaqi, Center for Strategic Studies,
Damascus.
- Dr. Lars Erslav Andersen, Senior Researcher, Danish
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Copenhagen.
- Mr. Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen, Associate Professor,
the Carsten Niebuhr Institute, Copenhagen.
- Mr. Maurits S. Berger, Senior Research Fellow,
Netherlands Institute of International Relations (Clingendael), The Hague.
- Mr. Brian Whitaker, Journalist, the Guardian, London.
- Mr. Fred Reed, Author and Freelance Journalist,
Montréal.
- Mr. Fuad A. Giacaman, Director of the Arab
Educational Institute, Bethlehem.
- Mrs. Mahasen Al-Imam, Journalist, Director of the Arab
Women Media Center, Amman.
- Mr. Ammar Abdulhamid, DarEmar Consulting Director and
Tharwa Project General Coordinator, Damascus.