One-third of the Board's members were replaced each year to bring in Arab experts on the particular
topic of the report under preparation. Care was exercised to ensure that regionally sensitive themes
such as culture, religion, human rights and women's empowerment were analyzed by Arab authorities and
contextualized.
A team of nine core and over thirty contributing Arab scholars worked independently of the sponsoring
institutions to research and write the Reports, which were prepared in Arabic and translated into
English.