Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani (born 1983) is the sixth child and eldest daughter of Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar, and Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al-Missned.

Sheikha Al-Mayassa graduated from Duke University in the United States in 2005 with a B.A. degree in Political Science and Literature. While at Duke, she was Vice President of the International Association, Vice President of Hiwar (an organization to promote political dialogue), and a delegate to the 2001-2002 Model United Nations.

For the 2003-2004 school year, she studied at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, and the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (known as Sciences Po). She spent the summer of 2002 working in the Paris headquarters of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Al-Mayassa is fluent in Arabic, English and French.

Liza Donnelly (born 1955) is an American cartoonist, best known for her work in The New Yorker.

She sold her first cartoon to The New Yorker in 1979, and they began to appear regularly in that magazine in 1982, at which time she was the youngest, and one of only three women cartoonists at the magazine.

Donnelly’s work has appeared in many other national publications, including The New York Times, The Harvard Business Review, The Nation, Audubon, Glamour (magazine), Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan (magazine), National Lampoon (magazine), American Photographer, Scholastic News, Cobblestone, and Habitat. Online publications that have published Donnelly's work include wowOwow, The Daily Beast, and Open Salon.

In the interview below, she talks  about how and why she started cartooning, and about her book When Do They Serve The Wine? which, after watching this video you will most certainly want to buy – or at least I did!.

Jody Williams (born October 9, 1950 in Brattleboro, Vermont, USA) is an American teacher and aid worker who received the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with the campaign she worked for, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL).

"For me, the difference between an 'ordinary' and an 'extraordinary' person is not the title that person might have, but what they do to make the world a better place for us all."

Naomi Klein (born May 8, 1970) is a Canadian author and activist known for her political analyses and criticism of corporate globalization.

Klein was born in Montreal, Quebec and brought up in a Jewish family with a history of left-wing activism. Her parents moved to Montreal from the U.S. in 1967 as war resisters to the Vietnam War.

Shirin Neshat ????? ???? (born March 26, 1957 in Qazvin, Iran) is an Iranian visual artist who lives in New York. She is known primarily for her work in film, video and photography.

Neshat's parents were upper middle-class. Her father was a well-respected physician and her mother a homemaker. She grew up in a westernized household that adored the Shah of Iran and his ideologies.

Neshat has stated about her father, “He fantasized about the west, romanticized the west, and slowly rejected all of his own values; both my parents did. What happened, I think, was that their identity slowly dissolved, they exchanged it for comfort.

As a part of Neshat’s “Westernization” she was enrolled in a Catholic boarding school in Tehran. She found the environment cold and hostile in comparison to her caring family.