İsmail Numan Telci is the Editor-in-Chief of MENA Affairs. He completed his undergraduate degree in Public Administration from Istanbul University Faculty of Political Sciences in 2006. Telci completed his European Studies master at Hochschule Bremen in Germany in 2008. Telci completed his doctorate in the International Department of Sakarya University. Telci's fields of work include the Arab revolutions, Turkey-Egypt relation and the Gulf.