Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor
Assistant Professor in faith and peaceful relations · Coventry University
Dr Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor specialises in how people engage with religion and with religious beliefs.
Diversity Muslim Women Inter-faith relations Religion Islam
Amira Elghawaby
Communications Director · The National Council of Canadian Muslims
Amira Elghawaby leads the NCCM’s media relations, public engagement and strategic communications.
Ethnic Media & Diversity Anti-discrimination Civic Engagement Human Rights Civil Rights
Islam Issa
Senior Lecturer, School of English · Birmingham City University
Islam Issa's research focuses primarily on the modern-day reception of Renaissance and Early Modern English literature in global contexts.
John Milton Disability Studies Cultural Studies English Literature Early Modern Literature
Amir Hussain
Professor and Chair of Theological Studies · Loyola Marymount University
Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts
Interfaith Dialogue Islam and Muslim Lives in the United States; Muslim Communities in North America Religion on Film and Television
Sheema Khan
Patent Agent · Shapiro Cohen LLP
Patent Agent. Writer. Speaker (Tedx)
Science and Technology Human Rights Muslim Current Affairs' Muslim Feminism Intellectual Property
Natasha Bakht
Associate Professor · University of Ottawa
Professor Bakht’s research interests are in the intersecting area of religious freedom and women’s equality.
Law Culture Rights Minority Rights Religious Freedom Women's Equality
Benjamin Soares
Director, Center for Global Islamic Studies · University of Florida
Soares currently directs the project “Islam in Africa in Global Context.”
West Africa Christian-Muslim Relations Religion & Politics Islam and Muslim Studies Religion & Media
Charles Kurzman, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Sociology, and co-director of the Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations, College of Arts and Sciences · UNC-Chapel Hill
Charles Kurzman is a Professor of Sociology at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill specializing in Middle East and Islamic studies.
Sociology of Religion Islam and the Middle East Middle East Studies Democracy Building Terrorism
Professor Imran Awan
Professor and Deputy Director of the Centre for Applied Criminology · Birmingham City University
Professor Imran Awan is one of the country’s leading criminologists and experts on Islamophobia and countering extremism.
Cultural and Critical Criminology Radicalization Hate Crime Islamophobia Terrorism
Farha Abbasi
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry · Michigan State University
Expert on cultural psychiatry and Muslim issues related to mental health.
Psychiatry Cultural Psychiatry Mental Health Issues Within The Islamic Community Mental Health Muslim American Community
Sabreena Ghaffar-Siddiqui
Professor, Sociologist & Researcher, DEI Expert · Sheridan College
DEI, Social Inequality; Immigration; Integration; Refugees; Racism; Islamophobia; Deviance; Radicalization; Terrorism; Hate Crimes.
Sociology Social Activism Politics Global Media and Culture Immigration and Ethnicity Immigration and Citizenship
Ruba Ali Al-Hassani
Postdoctoral Research Associate · Lancaster University
Middle Eastern Affairs Iraqi Affairs Counter-Terrorism Islamophobia Racial Profiling
Kelly Shannon, Ph.D.
Associate Professor · Florida Atlantic University
Kelly Shannon, Ph.D. specializes in the history of U.S. foreign relations, with particular attention to the 20th century.
Modern Iran Human Rights U.S. Foreign Relations 20th Century U.S. Modern Islamic World
Kholoud Al-Qubbaj
Associate Professor of Humanities · Southern Utah University
Specializing in diversity and inclusion in higher education, transnationalism, and middle eastern studies
Diversity & Inclusion in Higher Education English as A Second Language Diversity and Inclusion in Utah Global Diversity Social Justice
Mohammad Khalil
Associate Professor; Director; Adjunct Professor · Michigan State University
Islamic Thought.
Religious Studies Islamic Thought Islamic Studies
Farhang Rouhani
Associate Professor of Geography · University of Mary Washington
Associate Professor, Department of Geography
Gender Studies Queer Theory Cultural Geography Iranian and Muslim Diaspora Human Geography
Mitra Fakhrashrafi
Curator and Mixed Media Artist · Middlebrook Prize Winners
Mitra Fakhrashrafi (she/her) is an independent curator and mixed media artist indebted to border abolition organizing.
Borderlands Placemaking Geography Street Art Curation
Leonardo Villalon
Professor of Political Science · University of Florida
Leonardo A. Villalón is Dean of the International Center and Professor of Political Science and African Studies.
West Africa Post-Colonial Studies Economics Developing World Africa
Dr Islam Issa
Reader in Literature and History · Birmingham City University
His work has focused primarily on the modern-day reception of Renaissance and Early Modern English literature in global contexts.
Middle East Cultural History Literature Milton Shakespeare Cultural History
Feryal Cherif
Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations and Director of the International Relations Program · Loyola Marymount University
Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts
Gender and Human Rights International Relations Politics of Middle East