MIDDLE EAST SCHOLARS BOYCOTT ISRAEL…..SEE NOTE PLEASE
http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/18811/over-100-middle-east-studies-scholars-and-librarian
NO DOUBT “MESA” ONCE DUBBED “MESA NOSTRA” BY HUGH FITZGERALD HAS MUCH TO DO WITH THIS….”MESA” IS FUNDED WITH ARAB MONEY AND TOES THE LINE OF EDWARD SAID/RASHID KHALIDI WHICH IS RABIDLY ANTI-ISRAEL….AND HERE IS THE CATCH…YOU CAN’T TEACH MIDDLE STUDIES WITHOUT BELONGING TO “MESA”….THIS IS FROM AUGUST 2014.RSK
“We, the undersigned scholars and librarians working on the Middle East, hold that silence about the latest humanitarian catastrophe caused by Israel’s new military assault on the Gaza Strip—the third and most devastating in six years—constitutes complicity. World governments and mainstream media do not hold Israel accountable for its violations of international law. We, however, as a community of scholars engaged with the Middle East, have a moral responsibility to do so.
Neither the violation of international law nor the destruction of Palestinian life in Gaza, however, began or will end with the current war. Israel has maintained an illegal siege on the Gaza Strip for seven years. It has limited the movement of people and goods in and out of Gaza, rationing Palestinian calorie intake at just above subsistence levels.[1] Moreover, the suffering of Palestinians is not limited to Gaza: the occupation and dispossession in East Jerusalem, the Naqab (Negev), and the West Bank; the construction of walls and fences around the Palestinian population, the curtailment of Palestinian freedom of movement and education, and the house demolitions, all have long histories and no apparent end in sight. They will continue unless people around the world act where their governments have failed.
As employees in institutes of higher learning from around the world, we have a particular interest in and responsibility to respond to the obstacles to the right to higher education that the Israeli state has created for Palestinians both inside Israel and in the occupied territories. In the past two months alone, Israeli forces have raided Al Quds University in Jerusalem, the Arab American University in Jenin, and Birzeit University near Ramallah.[2] In the current attacks, Israeli aerial bombardment has destroyed the Islamic University of Gaza. More generally, the Israeli state discriminates against Palestinian students in Israeli universities;[3] and it isolates Palestinian academia by, among other tactics, preventing foreign academics from visiting Palestinian institutions in Gaza and the West Bank.[4] We are also alarmed by the long history of confiscations of Palestinian archives and the destruction of libraries and research centers.[5]
The ongoing Israeli massacres in Gaza have been ghastly reminders of the complicity of Israeli academic institutions in the occupation and oppression of Palestinians. Tel Aviv University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Bar Ilan University, Haifa University, Technion, and Ben Gurion University have publicly declared their unconditional support for the Israeli military.[6] More generally, there are intimate connections between Israeli academic institutions and the military, security, and political establishments in Israel.[7] To take but one example: Tel Aviv University is directly implicated, through its Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), in developing the Dahiya Doctrine,[8] adopted by the Israeli military in its assaults on Lebanon in 2006 and on Gaza today. The Dahiya Doctrine advocates the extensive destruction of civilian infrastructure and “intense suffering” among the civilian population as an “effective” means to subdue any resistance.[9]
Our colleagues in the Israeli academy have been silent, by and large, in the face of such violence and injustice. We applaud the few dozen Israeli academics who have protested against their government, and the several dozen who signed a petition calling for an end to Israel’s bombardment of Gaza.[10] Alarmingly, they have faced disciplinary measures from their own universities.[11] We stand by these academics and support them in what is our joint struggle.
As Middle East scholars and librarians, we feel compelled to join the growing number of academics in Israel and around the world who support the Palestinian call to boycott Israeli academic institutions. This call responds to Palestinian civil society organizations’ long-standing appeal for the comprehensive implementation of boycotts, divestments, and sanctions (BDS) of Israel, and is supported by the Palestinian Federation of Unions of University Professors and Employees (PFUUPE).
Following in the footsteps of the growing number of US academic associations that have endorsed boycott resolutions,[12] we call on our colleagues in Middle East Studies to boycott Israeli academic institutions, and we pledge not to collaborate on projects and events involving Israeli academic institutions, not to teach at or to attend conferences and other events at such institutions, and not to publish in academic journals based in Israel. We call for doing so until such time as these institutions end their complicity in violating Palestinian rights as stipulated in international law, and respect the full rights of Palestinians by calling on Israel to:
End its siege of Gaza, its occupation and colonization of all Arab lands occupied in June 1967, and dismantle the settlements and the walls;
Recognize the fundamental rights of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel and the stateless Negev Bedouins to full equality; and
Respect, protect, and promote the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in UN Resolution 194.
[**Academics and librarians interested in signing this statement should visit http://tinyurl.com/MEscholarsboycott (recommended) or email MEscholarsboycott@gmail.com with their name, title, and affiliation.]
[For media inquiries, please contact Professor Jens Hanssen via MEscholarsboycott@gmail.com or +1-416- 9783143]
[Update: The statement has now been signed by a total of 560 scholars and librarians.]
Original Signatories
Saleh Abdel Jawad
Associate Professor of Political Science, Birzeit University
Nahla Abdo
Professor, Anthropology and Sociology Department, Carleton University
Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi
Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies/Race and Resistance Studies, San Francisco State University
Osama Abi-Mershed
Associate Professor, Department of History, Director, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University
Nadia Abu El-Haj
Professor of Anthropology, Barnard College–Columbia University
Lila Abu-Lughod
Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science, Columbia University
Gilbert Achcar
Professor of Development Studies and International Relations, SOAS, University of London
Fida Adely
Associate Professor, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Nadje Al-Ali
Professor of Gender Studies, SOAS, University of London
Fadwa Allabadi
Associate Professor, Insan Center for Gender Studies, Al-Quds University
Lori Allen
Lecturer, Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge
Gil Anidjar
Professor, Departments of Religion and Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS), Columbia University
Sinan Antoon
Associate Professor, New York University
Talal Asad
Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, CUNY
Kamran Asdar Ali
Associate Professor, Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin
Barbara Aswad
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Wayne State University, and Past President of the Middle East Studies Association of North America
Cemil Aydin
Associate Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Kathryn Babayan
Associate Professor of History, Director of the Center of Armenian Studies, University of Michigan
Mohammed Bamyeh
Professor of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh
Asef Bayat
Catherine and Bruce Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies and Professor of Sociology and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Joel Beinin
Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle East History, Stanford University
George Bisharat
Professor, UC Hastings College of the Law
Marilyn Booth
Iraq Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Edinburgh
Glenn Bowman
Reader in Social Anthropology, Director of Research, School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, Canterbury
Haim Bresheeth
Senior Teaching Fellow, Centre for Media Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies
Michaelle Browers
Associate Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Wake Forest University
Louise Cainkar
Associate Professor of Sociology, Marquette University
John Collins
Professor of Global Studies, St. Lawrence University
Miriam Cooke
Braxton Craven Professor of Arab Cultures, Duke University
Hamid Dabashi
Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Omar Dahi
Associate Professor of Economics, Hampshire College
Linda T. Darling
Professor of History, University of Arizona
Rochelle Davis
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Georgetown University
Lara Deeb
Professor of Anthropology, Scripps College
Omnia El Shakry
Associate Professor, Department of History, University of California, Davis
Samera Esmeir
Associate Professor, Department of Rhetoric, University of California-Berkeley
John L. Esposito
University Professor & Founding Director, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University
Khaled Fahmy
Professor of History, American University in Cairo
Richard Falk
Milbank Professor of International Law Emeritus, Princeton University
James C. Faris
Professor Emeritus, Anthropology; Director Emeritus, University of Connecticut Program in Middle East Languages and Area Studies
Mona Fawaz
Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, American University of Beirut
Ilana Feldman
Associate Professor, Anthropology, History, and International Affairs, George Washington University
Nancy Gallagher
Research Professor, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara
Honaida Ghanim
General Director,
The Palestinian Forum for Israeli Studies (MADAR)
Farha Ghannam
Associate Professor, Anthropology, Swarthmore College
Amal Ghazal
Associate Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History, Dalhousie University
Irene L. Gendzier
Professor Emeritus, Political Science, Boston University
George Giacaman
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Studies, Birzeit University
Yvonne Haddad
Professor of History of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, Georgetown University
Sherine Hafez
Associate Professor, Women’s Studies and Middle East & Islamic Studies, University of California, Riverside
Elaine Hagopian
Professor Emerita of Sociology, Simmons College
Samira Haj
Professor of History, CUNY-GC/CSI
Sondra Hale
Research Professor/Professor Emerita, Departments of Anthropology and Gender Studies, University of California, Los Angeles.
Wael B. Hallaq
Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University
Rema Hammami
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Birzeit University
Juliane Hammer
Associate Professor, Religious Studies Department, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Sari Hanafi
Professor of Sociology, American University of Beirut
Jens Hanssen
Associate Professor of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean History, Departments of History and Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto
Mona Harb
Associate Professor, Urban Studies and Politics, American University of Beirut
Barbara Harlow
Louann and Larry Temple Centennial Professor of English Literature, University of Texas at Austin
Frances S. Hasso
Associate Professor in Women’s Studies and Sociology, Duke University
Charles Hirschkind
Associate Professor, Anthropology, UC Berkeley
Islah Jad
Associate Professor, Women’s Studies Institute, Bir Zeit University
Manal A. Jamal
Associate Professor of Political Science, James Madison University
Suad Joseph
Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Women’s Studies, University of California-Davis
Rhoda Kanaaneh
Adjunct Associate Professor, Middle East Instiute, Columbia University
Vangelis Kechriotis
Assistant Professor, History Department, Boğazici University
Rashid Khalidi
Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies and Professor of History, Columbia University
Tarif Khalidi
Sheykh Zayed Chair of Arabic and Islamic Studies, American University of Beirut
Laleh Khalili
Professor of Middle East Politics, SOAS, University of London
Ronit Lentin
Associate Professor, Sociology, Trinity College Dublin
Mark LeVine
Professor of Modern Middle Eastern Hitory, UC Irvine
Yosefa Loshitzky
Professorial Research Associate, School of Oriental and African Studies
Nur Masalha
Professor of Religion and Politics, St Mary’s University College, and SOAS, University of London
Brinkley Messick
Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University
Laurence Michalak
Emeritus Vice Chair, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of California-Berkeley
Timothy Mitchell
Professor, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University
Amira Mittermaier
Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies and Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto
Karma Nabulsi
Professor of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, Fellow in Politics, St Edmund Hall
Eiji Nagasawa
Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo
Isis Nusair
Associate Professor of International Studies and Women’s Studies, Denison University
Roger Owen
A.J. Meyer Emeritus Professor of Middle East History, Harvard University
Ilan Pappe
Professor of History, Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies, University of Exeter
Laila Parsons
Associate Professor, Department of History and Classical Studies, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University
Gabriel Piterberg
Professor of Middle East History, UCLA
Shira Robinson
Associate Professor of Middle Eastern History, George Washington University
Adam Sabra
Professor of History and King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud Chair in Islamic Studies,
University of California, Santa Barbara
George Saliba
Professor of Arabic and Islamic Science Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
Ihab Saloul
Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies, University of Amsterdam
Nisreen Salti
Associate Professor of Economics, American University of Beirut
Aseel Sawalha
Associate Professor, Anthropology, Fordham University
Rosemary Sayigh
Visiting Professor at the Center for Arab and Middle East Studies, American University of Beirut
Kirsten Scheid
Associate Professor of Anthropology, American University of Beirut
Paul Sedra
Associate Professor of Middle East History, Simon Fraser University
May Seikaly
Associate Professor of Modern Middle East History, Wayne State University
Elyse Semerdjian
Associate Professor of History, Whitman College
Anton Shammas
Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Michigan
Stephen Sheehi
Sultan Qaboos bin Said Chair of Middle East Studies, College of William and Mary
Todd Shepard
Associate Professor, History, John Hopkins University
Magid Shihade
Birzeit University
Lisa Taraki
Associate Professor of Sociology, Birzeit University
Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi
Professor of History, Historical Studies & Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto
Judith E. Tucker
Professor of History, Georgetown University
Lisa Wedeen
Mary R. Morton Professor of Political Science and the College, The University of Chicago
Jessica Winegar
Associate Professor, Anthropology, Northwestern University
Additional Signatories
Mona Abaza
Professor of Sociology, American University in Cairo
Tahia Abdel Nasser
Assistant Professor, English and Comparative Literature, American University in Cairo
Maha Abdelrahman
Lecturer in Development Studies, University of Cambridge
Sanabel Abdelrahman
Near and Middle East Civilization, University of Toronto
Suha Abdo
PhD Candidate, School of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of Leeds
Sawsan Abdulrahim
Associate Professor, American University of Beirut
Bassam Abed
Clinical Professor of Social Science, McGhee Division, New York University
Malek Abisaab
Associate Professor, Department of History and Classical Studies, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University
Rula Jurdi Abisaab
Associate Professor, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University
Mariam Aboelezz
PhD Candidate, Linguistics, Lancaster University
Khaled Abou El Fadl
Distinguished Professor of Islamic Law, UCLA School of Law
Reem Abou-El-Fadl
Lecturer, School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University
Saed Abu-Hijleh
Lecturer of Political Geography, An-Najah National University
Bashir Abu-Manneh
Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Brown University
Lama Abu Odeh
Law Professor, Georgetown Law Center
Giuseppe Acconcia
Researcher, University of Pavia
Nassef Manabilang Adiong
Co-Founder and PhD Candidate, International Relations and Islamic Studies Research Cohort, Middle East Technical University, and Alliance of Civilizations Institute
Fawzia Afzal-Khan
Professor and Director, Women and Gender Studies, Montclair State University
Khalil Agha
Researcher, University of Northampton
Mumtaz Ahmad
Professor of Political Science, Distinguished Visiting Scholar, William & Mary
Farzaneh Ahmadi
Research Fellow, University of Sydney
Alzahraa Ahmed
PhD Student, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Sara Ahmed
Professor, Goldsmiths, University of London
Elif Aksit
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Ankara University
Talal Al-Azem
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Oriental Institute, University of Oxford
Amal Al-Malki
Associate Professor, Translation and Interpreting Institute, Hamad bin Khalifa University
Ayad Al-Qazzaz
Professor of Sociology, California State University Sacramento
Danya Al-Saleh
Doctoral Student, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Abdul-Rahim Al-Shaikh
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Cultural and Arab Studies, Birzeit University
Najwa al-Qattan
Associate Professor, Loyola Marymount University
Randa Alami
Senior Teaching Fellow, Economics Department, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Samer Alatout
Associate Professor, Department of Community & Environmental Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Samia AlBotmeh
Assistant Professor, Centre for Development Studies, Birzeit University
Ammiel Alcalay
Professor, Classical, Middle Eastern & Asian Languages & Cultures, Queens College, CUNY
Anthony Alessandrini
Associate Professor, Kingsborough Community College-CUNY and the CUNY Graduate Center
Nadia Ali
Post-doctoral Researcher in Islamic Arts, Khalili Research Centre and British Museum
Minoo Alinia
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Uppsala University, Sweden
Dina AlKassim
Associate Professor, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Samirah Alkassim
Assistant Professor, Department of Performing & Visual Arts, American University in Cairo (formerly)
Diana Allan
Melon Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University
Jamie Allinson
Lecturer, Politics and International Relations, University of Westminster
Ghada alMadbouh
Assistant Professor, Birzeit University
Omar AlShehabi
Director, Gulf Centre for Development Policies
Evelyn Alsultany
Associate Professor, American Culture, University of Michigan
Seda Altug
Assistant Professor, Bogazici Universtity
Hussein Amery
Associate Professor, Division of Liberal Arts and Intl. Studies, Colorado School of Mines
Valérie Amiraux
Professor of Sociology, Canada Research Chair for the Study of Religious Pluralism, University of Montreal
Ovamir Anjum
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Toledo
Zayde Antrim
Associate Professor of History and International Studies, Trinity College
Ibrahim Aoude
Professor, University of Hawai‘i
Ramazan Aras
Assıstant Professor, Mardin Artuklu University
Nurullah Ardic
Associate Professor, Istanbul Sehir University
Walter Armbrust
Associate Professor of Modern Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford
Shifa Askari
PhD Student, University of Leeds
Sahar Assaf
Fine Arts and Art History, American University of Beirut
Barbara Aswad
Professor Emeritus Anthropology, Wayne State University
Mona Atia
Associate Professor of Geography and International Affairs, George Washington University
Ariella Azoulay
Professor, Comparative Literature, Brown University
Margot Badran
Senior Fellow, Georgetown University
Riad Bahhur
Professor, Department of History, Sacramento City College
Christine Baker
Assistant Professor, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Mona Baker
Professor of Translation Studies, University of Manchester, UK
Lamia Balafrej
Assistant Professor, Art Department, Wellesley College
Grégoire Bali
Teaching Faculty Member, University of Geneva—Faculty of Translation and Interpretation
Mariam Banahi
PhD Student, Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
Lauren Banko
Senior Teaching Fellow, SOAS, University of London
Halim Barakat
Retired Professor, Georgetown University
Gustavo Barbosa
PhD in Anthropology, Independent Researcher
Ryvka Barnard
PhD Candidate, New York University
Betul Basaran
Associate Professor of Religious Studies, St. Mary’s College of Maryland
Bahar Baser
Postdoctoral Fellow, Warwick University
Hatem Bazian
Lecturer, Near Eastern Studies and Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley and Zaytuna College
Sahar Bazzaz
Associate Professor, Department of History, College of the Holy Cross
Naoual Belakhdar
Research Associate and Lecturer in Political Science, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Politics/Free University of Berlin
Amor Belhedi
Professor, Universite offre Tunis
Alex Bellem
Lecturer in Arabic, University of Durham
Joachim Ben Yakoub
Researcher, Menarg, Ugent
Imene Bennani
Assistant Department of English, University of Kairouan
Francesca Biancani
Adjunct Professor, University of Bologna
Laura Bier
Associate Professor of History, Georgia Tech
Elizabeth Bishop
Associate Professor, Texas State University
Koen Bogaert
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Ghent University
Elinor Bray-Collins
PhD Candidate, University of Toronto
Daniela Bredi
Associate Professor, Università Sapienza di Roma
Jonathan Brown
Associate Professor, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Gordon Brubacher
Resident Assistant Professor of Scripture, Creighton University
Khaldun Bshara
Director, Riwaq Centre
Ray Bush
Professor of African Studies and Development Politics, University of Leeds
Charles Butterworth
Emeritus Professor, University of Maryland
Marina Calculli
Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Oxford
Sheila Carapico
Professor of Political Science and International Studies, University of Richmond
Josh Carney
PhD Candidate, Communication and Culture, Indiana University
Yousef Casewit
Assistant Professor of Arabic intellectual Heritage and Culture, American University of Sharjah
Jad Chaaban
Associate Professor of Economics, American University of Beirut
Wilson Chacko Jacob
Associate Professor, Department of History, Concordia University
Ananya Chakravarti
Abdelhadi H. Taher Professor of Comparative Religion/Assistant Professor, Department of History, The American University in Cairo
Paula Chakravartty
Associate Professor, Department of Media, Culture and Communication and the Gallatin School, New York University
John Chalcraft
Associate Professor, London School of Economics
Abderrahim Chalfaouat
PhD Candidate, Hassan II University
Claudia Chaufan
Associate Professor, Health Policy and Sociology, University of California-San Francisco
Anuradha Mitra Chenoy
Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Kamal Aron Mitra Chenoy
Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Rachida Chih
Senior Researcher, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Christina Civantos
Associate Professor, University of Miami
Anne Clement
Assistant Professor of History & International Studies, North Carolina State University
Matan Cohen
PhD Candidate, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies, Columbia University
Elliott Colla
Associate Professor, Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Georgetown University
John Cooper
Lecturer, University of Exeter
Francesca Corrao
Professor of Arab Culture, Department of Political Science, Luiss University Rome, Italy
Stephanie Cronin
Departmental Lecturer, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford
Jeffrey Culang
Doctoral Candidate, City University of New York Graduate Center
Deena Dajani
Visiting Fellow, The Open University
Nabil Dajani
Professor of Media Studies, American University of Beirut
Ahmad Dallal
Professor of History, American University of Beirut
Mona Damluji
Postdoctoral Fellow, Wheaton College
Karam Dana
Assistant Professor, University of Washington-Bothell
Claudine Dauphin
Honorary Professor, Archaeology and Theology, Scholar of Byzantine and Early Islamic Palestine, University of Wales
Lawrence Davidson
Professor of History, Department of History, West Chester University
Riham E.A. Debian
PhD in Cultural Studies, Lecturer in Institute of Applied Linguistics and Translation, Alexandria University
Pascal Debruyne
Postdoctoral Researcher, MENARG Ghent University, Ghent University
Chiara De Cesari
Assistant Professor, Cultural Studies, University of Amsterdam
Anne de Jong
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam
Jocelyn DeJong
Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut
Jennifer Derr
Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of California, Santa Cruz
Batoul Diab
Lecturer, English Department, Damascus University
Chloe Diamond-Lenow
Doctoral Candidate, Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
James Dickins
Professor of Arabic, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Leeds
Tiago Duarte Dias
Graduate Student at NEOM (Middle Eastern Studies Association), Universidade Federal Fluminense
Fred M. Donner
Professor of Near Eastern History, Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, The University of Chicago
Susan Douglass
Education Outreach Director, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University
Beshara Doumani
Joukowsky Family Professor of Modern Middle East History, Brown University
Laura Doyle
Professor of English, University of Massachusetts
Sahar Driver
Anthropology and Social Change, California Institute of Integral Studies
Dalia Ebeid
Teaching Assistant, Department of English, Cairo University
Mastan Ebtehaj
Librarian, The Middle East Centre, St. Antony’s College, Oxford University
Haidar Eid
Associate Professor, Al-Aqsa University
Shahida A. El-Baz
Director, Arab and African Research Centre, Egypt
Youssef El Chazli
Graduate Assistant, University of Lausanne/University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne
Walid El Hamamsy
Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies, English Department., Cairo University
Mourad El Khatibi
Doctoral Candidate, Mohamed 5 university, Rabat, Morocco
Saker El Nour
Faculty of Agriculture, South Valley University
Rayya El Zein
PhD Candidate, Theater, CUNY Graduate Center
Dima El-Halabi
Instructor and Coordinated Program Assistant Director, Department of Nutrition and Food Science, American University of Beirut
Tamer El-Leithy
Assistant Professor of History, Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies, New York University
Tammer El-Sheikh
Visiting Scholar, Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University
Alexander Elinson
Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature, Department of Classical and Oriental Studies, Hunter College (CUNY)
Hoda Elsadda
Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Cairo University
Sarah Eltantawi
Assistant Professor, Evergreen State College
Hend Eltaweel
Graduate Student, Middle East Studies Center, The American University in Cairo
Amal Eqeiq
Visiting Assistant Professor in Arabic and Comparative Literature, Williams College
Anita Fabos
Associate Professor, Department of International Development, Community, and Environment, Clark University
Carol Fadda-Conrey
Associate Professor, Syracuse University
Stacy Fahrenthold
Postdoctoral Fellow in History, Williams College
Elizabeth Faier
Independent Scholar
May Farah
Assistant Professor, Media Studies, American University of Beirut
Farideh Farhi
Lecturer and Affiliate Graduate Faculty of Political Science, University of Hawai’i at Manoa
Laila Farhood
Professor, American University of Beirut
Hani Faris
Adjunct Professor, Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia
Leila Farsakh
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts Boston
Mary Ann Fay
Associate Professor of History, Morgan State University
Mahmoud Fayyad
Assistant Professor, Birzeit University
Maria Fernandez-Vivancos Marquina
Middle East Studies Center, American University in Cairo
Ellen Fleischmann
Professor, Department of History, University of Dayton
Finbarr Barry Flood
Professor of Art History, New York University
Alexander Flores
Professor, Middle East Studies, Hochschule Bremen
Vassilis Fouskas
Professor of International Politics & Economics, University of East London
Layal Ftouni
Visiting Lecturer/Senior Teaching Fellow, SOAS, University of London
Zeynep Gambetti
Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Boğazici University, Istanbul
Nouri Gana
Professor, University of California Los Angeles
Dina Georgis
Associate Professor, Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto
Behrooz Ghamari
Associate Professor, University of Illinois
Zeina Ghandour
Professor, Birkbeck, London University
Pascale Ghazaleh
Associate Professor, Department of History, The American University in Cairo
Celeste Gianni
PhD Student, Near and Middle East, SOAS
Fanny Gillet
Doctorante, EHESS, Paris
Michael Gilsenan
David B. Kriser Professor in the Humanities, New York University
Terri Ginsberg
International Council for Middle East Studies, USA
Rohit Goel
PhD Candidate, University of Chicago
Anthony Gorman
Senior Lecturer, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Edinburgh
Camilo Gomez-Rivas
Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz
Nina Gren
PhD in Social Anthropology, Centre of Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University
Molly Greene
Professor, Princeton University
Zareena Grewal
Assistant Professor of American Studies and Religious Studies, Faculty at Council on Middle East Studies, Yale University
Maryam Griffin
PhD Candidate in Sociology, University of California-Santa Barbara
Sarah Gualtieri
Associate Professor of History and American Studies, University of Southern California
Laura Guazzone
Associate Professor, Department of Oriental Studies, La Sapienza University
Giselle Guilhon Antunes Camargo
PhD Candidate, Art Department, UFPA/Brasil
Magdi Guirguis
Assistant Professor, Kafrelsheikh University, Egypt
Turgay Gunduz
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Uludag University
F. Canguzel Guner Zulfikar
Director of Social Studies Research and Application Center, Istanbul Commerce University
Vivek Gupta
PhD Student, Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University
Dimitri Gutas
Professor of Arabic, Yale University
Marilyn Hacker
Professor, CUNY Graduate Center
Bassam Haddad
Associate Professor, Department of Public and International Affairs, George Mason University
Ghassan Hage
Professor, University of Melbourne
Zaki Haidar
Visiting Lecturer of Arabic, Carleton College
Serra Hakyemez
Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
Ali Hammoudi
PhD Candidate, Osgoode Hall Law School
Dyala Hamzah
Professor, Department of History, University of Montreal
Adam Hanieh
Senior Lecturer, Development Studies, SOAS, University of London
Lara Harb
Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College
Sirene Harb
Associate Professor, American University of Beirut
Michelle Hartman
Associate Professor, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University
Magda Hassan
PhD, University of Cambridge
Salah Hassan
Associate Professor, Michigan State University
Wail S. Hassan
Professor of Comparative Literature and English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Amir Hassanpour
Associate Prof. (Ret.), University of Toronto
Rima Hassouneh
Lecturer II, Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Ron Hayduk
Professor, Political Science, Queens College
Joe Hayns
DPhil Candidate, Social Anthropology, University of Oxford
Gretchen Head
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Linda Herrera
Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Alaa Hijazi
Assistant Professor of Psychology, American University of Beirut
Jamil Hilal
Independent researcher and scholar, Palestine
Engseng Ho
Professor, Department of Anthropology, Duke University
Joan Hoff
Research History Professor, Montana State University, Bozeman
Katherine Hoffman
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University
Clive Holes
Khalid bin Abdullah Al Sa’ud Professor for the Study of the Contemporary Arab World, Oriental Institute, University of Oxford, UK
Uri Horesh
Assistant Professor of Instruction, Middle East and North African Studies, Northwestern University
Michael C. Hudson
Professor Emeritus, Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Lamya Hussain
Member for Centre of Palestine Studies, SOAS, University of London
Dina Ibrahim
Associate Professor, Media and Communication, San Francisco State University
Adel Iskandar
Assistant Professor for Global Communication, Simon Fraser University
Ammar Jan
Doctoral Candidate, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge
Toby Jones
Associate Professor, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Ray Jureidini
Professor of Sociology, Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics, Doha, Qatar
Zeynep Kadirbeyoglu
Assistant Professor, Boğazici University
Amy Kallander
Associate Professor of Middle East History, Syracuse University
Deniz Kandiyoti
Emeritus Professor, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Ousmane Kane
Professor of Contemporary Islamic Religion and Society, Harvard Divinity School
Ahmed Kanna
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, School of International Studies, University of the Pacific
Tomis Kapitan
Professor (Emeritus), Philosophy Department, Northern Illinois University
Lidwien Kapteijns
Professor of History, Wellesley College
Rima Karami
Associate Professor, American University of Beirut
Jeremy Keenan
Professorial Research Associate, School of African and Oriental Studies, London University
Paul Kelemen
Honorary Research Fellow, University of Manchester
Ferhat Kentel
Professor of Sociology, Istanbul Sehir University
Arang Keshavarzian
Associate Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University
Muhammad Ali Khalidi
Associate Professor, Philosophy, York University, Toronto
Muqtedar Khan
Associate Professor, University of Delaware
Yasmine Khayyat
Assistant Professor, African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures, Rutgers University
Rami Khouri
Director, Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, American University of Beirut
Issam Khoury
Associate Academic Dean, Center for International Learning, Oman
Ilham Khuri-Makdisi
Associate Professor of History, Northeastern University
Laurie King
Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Georgetown University
Abdulhamit Kırmızı
Chair of History Department, Istanbul Şehir University
Marcy Knopf-Newman
Independent Scholar
Susan Koshy
Associate Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Nikolas Kosmatopoulos
Lecturer, Ecole Federale Polytechnique de Lausanne
Elektra Kostopoulou
Lecturer, Rutgers University
Bilal Kotil
PhD Student, The New School for Social Research
Murat Koyuncu
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Bogazici University
Marieke Krijnen
PhD Student, Ghent University
Patricia Kubala
PhD Student, UC Berkeley
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Assistant Professor, Sociology Department, Boğazici University
Thomas Kuehn
Associate Professor of Middle East History, Simon Fraser University
Blair Kuntz
Near and Middle Eastern Studies Librarian, University of Toronto
James Kuras
Graduate Student, Geography, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Eileen Kuttab
Associate Professor of Sociology, Institute of Women Studies, Birzeit University
Nora Lafi
Professor of History, Zentrum Moderner Orient
Robert Lang
Professor of Cinema, University of Hartford
Owain Lawson
PhD Student, Columbia University
Claire Launchbury
Lecturer, French and Cultural Studies, University of New South Wales
Smadar Lavie
Scholar in Residence, Beatrice Bain Research Group, University of California-Berkeley
Abby Lippman
Professor Emerita, McGill University
Joseph Lombardo
Doctoral Candidate, The New School for Social Research
Miriam Lowi
Professor, Departmet of Political Science, The College of New Jersey
Haiyun Ma
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Frostburg State University
Abdeslam Maghraoui
Associate Professor of Practice, Political Science, Duke University
Zeina Maasri
Associate Professor, American University of Beirut / University of Brighton
Ramzi Mabsout
Assistant Professor, American University of Beirut
Christopher MacEvitt
Associate Professor of Religion, Dartmouth College
Peter Magee
Professor, Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College
Saba Mahmood
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
Sunaina Maira
Professor, University of California, Davis
Lisa Suhair Majaj
Independent Scholar, University of Cyprus
Rima Majed
PhD Candidate, University of Oxford
Neepa Majumdar
Associate Professor, Film Studies and English, University of Pittsburgh
Manar Makhoul
Manager of Research and Production Unit, Badil-Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights
Dina Makram-Ebeid
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Harriet Malinowitz
Professor of English, Long Island University
Mahmood Mamdani
Professor, Department of Middle East, South Asian and African Studies, Columbia University
Fouad Gehad Marei
Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer, Otto-Suhr Institut, Freie Universität Berlin
Mazen Masri
Lecturer, City Law School, City University London
Rania Masri
Assistant Professor, University of Balamand
Dina Matar
Senior Lecturer in Political Communication, School of Oriental and African Studies
Kamran Matin
Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Sussex University
Afshin Matin-asgari
California State University
Khaled Mattawa
Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Michigan
James McDougall
Associate Professor of Modern History, Fellow of Trinity College, University of Oxford
Khalid Mustafa Medani
Associate Professor, McGill University
Anne Meneley
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Trent University
Adam Mestyan
Junior Fellow, Harvard University
Dr. Faysal Mikdadi
Writer
Jeannie Miller
Assistant Professor, Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto
Faranak Miraftab
Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois
Minoo Moallem
Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies, University of California-Berkeley
Lamia Moghnieh
PhD Candidate, University of Michigan
Shahrzad Mojab
Professor/OISE, University of Toronto
Linda Mokdad
Assistant Professor, St. Olaf College
Annelies Moors
Professor, University of Amsterdam
Manijeh Moradian
Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University
Hiba Morcos
PhD Student, University of British Columbia
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Researcher/Graduate Student, University of Oxford
Dalia Mostafa
Lecturer in Arabic and Comparative Literature, Middle Eastern Studies, University of Manchester
Mariam Motamedi Fraser
Reader (Associate Professor), Goldsmiths, University of London
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Associate Professor, UCLA
Elias Muhanna
Manning Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Brown University
Corinna Mullin
Professor, University of Tunis
Research Associate, School of Oriental and African Studies
Martha Mundy
Professor Emerita of Anthropology, London School of Economics
Esra Mungan
Assistant Professor, Boğaziçi University
Cynthia Myntti
Professor of Public Health Practice, American University of Beirut
Nadine Naber
Associate Professor, University of Illinois
Shuruq Naguib
Lecturer in Islamic Studies, Lancaster University
Aseel Nasir-Dyck
Independent Scholar
Mona Nasrallah
Associate Professor, Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut
Issam Nassar
Professor of Middle East History, Illinois State University
Jamal Nassar
Dean, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, California State University
Riad Nasser
Professor, Fairleigh Dickenson University
Helena Nassif
PhD Candidate, University of Westminster
Katherine Natanel
Senior Teaching Fellow, SOAS Centre for Gender Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Yaseen Noorani
Associate Professor, School of Middle East and North African Studies, University of Arizona
Anne Norton
Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
Michelle Obeid
Lecturer, Social Anthropology, University of Manchester
Pelle Valentin Olsen
PhD Candidate, University of Chicago
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Doctoral Candidate, University of Oxford
Mahmoud Omidsalar
Librarian, California State University, Los Angeles
Cagla Orpen
PhD Student in Politics and History, NSSR
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Associate Professor, Law, Societies, and Justice, University of Washington
Michelle Pace
Professor (MSO) on Europe and the Middle East, Roskilde University
Stefania Pandolfo
Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California-Berkeley
Christopher Parker
Associate Professor, Ghent University
Nigel Parsons
Senior Lecturer, Politics Program, Massey University
Glenn Perry
Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Indiana State University
Julie Peteet
Proffessor of Anthropology, University of Louisville
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Campus in Camps, Al Quds University
Ramez Philippe Maalouf
PhD student in Human Geography, University of São Paulo
Karen Pinto
Assistant Professor, Gettysburg College
Coralie Pison Hindawi
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Studies and Public Administration, American University of Beirut
Graham Pitts
PhD Candidate, Department of History, Georgetown University
Leila Pourtavaf
PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Toronto
Janet M. Powers
Professor Emerita, Gettysburg College
Vijay Prashad
Professor of International Studies, Trinity College
Nicola Pratt
Reader, International Politics of the Middle East Department of Politics & International Studies, University of Warwick
Casey Primel
PhD Candidate, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University
Michael Provence
Associate Professor of History, University of California, San Diego
Jasbir Puar
Associate Professor, Rutgers University
Nicolas Puig
Reseacher in Anthropology, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Sara Pursley
Postdoctoral Fellow, Society of Fellows, Princeton University
Linda Quiquivix
PhD in Geography, Independent Scholar
Mazin Qumsiyeh
Professor, Bethlehem University
Noha Radwan
Associate Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature, University of California, Davis
Najat Rahman
Associate Professor, Comparative Literature, University of Montreal
Dina A. Ramadan
Assistant Professor of Arabic, Bard College
Yasmine Ramadan
Assistant Professor of Arabic, The University of Iowa
A.K. Ramakrishnan
Professor, Centre for West Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Junaid Rana
Associate Professor, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Jeremy Randall
Doctoral Student, CUNY Graduate Center
Norma Rantisi
Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University
Kamran Rastegar
Associate Professor, German, Russian and Asian Languages and Literatures, Tufts University
Sherene H. Razack
Professor, Department of Social Justice Education, University of Toronto
Chandan Reddy
Associate Professor, University of Washington
Scott Reese
Professor of History, Northern Arizona University
John Reynolds
Lecturer, Department of Law, National University of Ireland.
Qaiser Riaz
PhD Candidate, University of Bonn
Thomas Ricks
Independent Scholar, BCA StudyAbroad.org
Dina Rizk Khoury
Professor of History, George Washington University
Sajjad Rizvi
Associate Professor of Islamic Intellectual History, University of Exeter
John Robertson
Professor of History, Central Michigan University
Amanda Rogers
Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Farhang Rouhani
Associate Professor, University of Mary Washington
Vincent Romani
Professor, Political Science, UQAM
Caroline Rooney
Professor of African and Middle Eastern Studies, Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Research, University of Kent
Jasamin Rostam
Department of History, California State University
Sara Roy
Senior Research Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
Cheryl Rubenberg
Retired Professor, Political Science, Florida International University
Umar Ryad
Professor, Faculty of Humanities, Utrecht University
Sardar Saadi
PhD Student, University of Toronto
Zuhair Sabbagh
Associate Professor of Sociology, Birzeit University
Jeffrey Sacks
Associate Professor, University of California, Riverside
Karim Sadek
PhD, American University of Beirut
Sadegh Sajjadi
Librarian, Head of History Department, The Center for the Great Islamic Encyclopedia, Iran
Christa Salamandra
Associate Professor of Anthropology, City University of New York
Anais Salamon
Head Librarian, McGill University
Josefina Saldaña
Professor, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University
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Visiting Assistant Professor, American University in Cairo
Sara Salih
Professor, University of Toronto
Ruba Salih
Professor, University of London
Jeremy Salt
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Bilkent University
Dima Samaha
Lecturer, Université Saint-Joseph
Anika Sarkar
Professor of History, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Sumit Sarkar
Retired Professor of History, University of Delhi
Louis-Georges Schwartz
Associate Professor, Ohio University
Berivan Sarikayaa
PhD Candidate, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
Sherene Seikaly
Assistant Professor, History, University of California, Santa Barbara
Samah Selim
Associate Professor, Department of African, Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Literatures, Rutgers University
Banu Senay
Lecturer, Macquaie University
Beth Seymour
Instructor of Anthropology, Communications, History and Women’s Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, Altoona College
Nada Shabout
Professor of Art History, University of North Texas
Abdul Shaikh
Lecturer, University of Leeds
Noa Shaindlinger
PhD Candidate, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto
Sima Shakhsari
Assistant Professor, Wellesley College
Amr Shalakany
Associate Professor of Law, American University in Cairo
Tarek Shamma
Assistant Professor, Translation and Interpreting Institute
Simona Sharoni
Professor, SUNY-Plattsburgh
Deen Sharp
PhD Candidate, CUNY Graduate Center
Douaa Sheet
Doctoral Student, CUNY Graduate Center
Sarah Shields
Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Ella Shohat
Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies; Professor, Art and Public Policy, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
Ranjit Singh
Associate Professor, University of Mary Washington
Richa Singh
PhD Candidate, Centre for West Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Eyal Sivan
Honorary Fellow, European Institute for Palestine Studies, University of Exeter
Susan Slyomovics
Professor of Anthropology, University of California Los Angeles
Rex Smith
Visiting Professor, School of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of Leeds
Sharon C. Smith
Program Head, Aga Khan Documentation Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Justin Stearns
Arab Crossroads Studies, New York University – Abu Dhabi
Angelo Stefanini
Senior Researcher, Centre for International Health, University of Bologna
Ann Laura Stoler
Willy Brandt Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies, New School for Social Research
Christopher Stone
Associate Professor, Hunter College (CUNY)
Mayssun Succarie
Fellow, Cogut Center for the Humanities, Brown University
Ronald Grigor Suny
Charles Tilly Collegiate Professor of Social and Political History, The University of Michigan
Aditi Surie von Czechowski
PhD Candidate, Columbia University
Husrev Tabak
PhD Researcher, The University of Manchester
Javad Taherinezhad
Lecturer, Bu Ali Sina University
Abdel Razzaq Takriti
Lecturer in International History, University of Sheffield
Adam Talib
Assistant Professor, classical Arabic literature, The American University in Cairo
Steve Tamari
Associate Professor, Department of Historical Studies, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Helga Tawil-Souri
Associate Professor, New York University
Abdulkader Tayob
Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of Cape Town
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PhD Student, CUNY Graduate Center
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Assistant Professor, Political Science and Public Administration, American University of Beirut
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Associate Professor, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, University of British Columbia
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PhD Student, UC Berkeley
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Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Virginia Commonwealth University
Hanan Toukan
Postdoctoral Fellow, Free University Berlin
Zülal Nazan Üstündağ
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Boğaziçi University
Abbas Vali
Professor, Department of Sociology, Boğazici University
Achin Vanaik
International Relations and Global Politics, University of Delhi
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Assistant, Doctoral Researcher Middle East and North Africa Research Group, Ghent University
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Documentary Filmmaker, Independent Documentarian
David Wearing
PhD Candidate, Department of Development Studies, SOAS, University of London
Max Weiss
Associate Professor of History and Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
Lynn Welchman
Professor of Law in the Middle East and North Africa, SOAS
Mark Westmoreland
Post Doctorate, Media Studies, Stockholm University
Charles Wilkins
Associate Professor, History Department, Wake Forest University
John Willis
Associate Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder
David Wilmsen
Professor of Arabic and Chair, Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages, The American University of Beirut
Katherine Wilson
Adjunct Instructor, City University of New York
Nancy Withington
Professor, Kent State University
Patrick Wolfe
Historian, Australia
Lisa Wynn
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Mohammad Jafar Yahaghi
Professor, Ferdowsin University of Mashhad
Nadia Yaqub
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Asian Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Anna-Esther Younes
PhD Candidate, Graduate Institute of International Studies (IHEID), Geneva
May Zahri
Associate Professor, University of Damascus
Mark Zeitoun
Reader, School of International Development, University of East Anglia
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Professor, Ghent University
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