Contributors
- Contributors
Kamran Aghaie is an assistant professor at and associate director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. His recent publications include The Martyrs of Karbala: Shi'i Symbols and Rituals in Modern Iran (University of Washington Press) and the forthcoming The Women of Karbala: The Gender Dynamics of Ritual Performances and Symbolic Discourses of Modern Shi'i Islam (University of Texas Press).
Sadiq J. al-Azm is emeritus professor of the history of modern European philosophy, University of Damascus, Syria. He won both the Leopold-Lucas prize from the University of Tïbingen, Germany, and the Erasmus Prize in 2004.
Evelyne M. Bornier is an assistant professor of French at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond. Her research focuses primarily on the Maghreb, the Middle East, and the Caribbean. She has published articles in the Cincinnati Romance Review, the International Journal of Francophone Studies, and Le Maghreb Littéraire, among others. Her poems and essays have recently been published in Algérie Littérature Action and Le Maghreb Littéraire under the pen name Leïla Asma.
Todd Cleveland is a PhD candidate and MacArthur scholar in the Department of History at the University of Minnesota, where he is writing a dissertation on the history of African laborers on Angola's colonial-era diamond mines.
Lara Deeb is an assistant professor of women's studies at the University of California, Irvine. She received her PhD in anthropology from Emory University in 2003. She is the author of An Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety in Shi'i Lebanon (Princeton University Press).
Peter Gottschalk specializes in contemporary Islam and Hinduism in north India and is an associate professor of religion at Wesleyan University. He obtained his PhD in the history of religions at the University of Chicago. His book, Beyond Hindu and Muslim: Multiple Identity in Narratives from Village India, was published by Oxford University Press in 2000. He currently is codesigning, with Mathew Schmalz, "A Virtual Village" (virtualvillage.wesleyan.edu), an interactive Web site that allows visitors to virtually explore elements of everyday life in a village in Bihar.
Jonathan D. Greenberg is director of international graduate studies and lecturer in law at Stanford Law School.
Sune Haugbolle is a PhD candidate in Middle Eastern studies at St. Antony's College, University of Oxford. He has an MSt in Middle Eastern studies from the University of Oxford and an MA and BA in Arabic from the University of Copenhagen.
Gail Holst-Warhaft is an adjunct professor in the classics and comparative literature departments at Cornell University, where she directs the Mediterranean Initiative for the Institute for European Studies. She is the author of several books about Greek music and has published translations of modern and ancient Greek poetry and prose. She has published two books on grief and mourning: Dangerous Voices: Laments and Greek Literature (Routledge) and The Cue for Passion: Grief and Its Political Uses (Harvard University Press). Her first collection of poetry, Penelope's Confession, will be published in a bilingual English-Greek edition in 2005.
Ali J. Hussain received his PhD from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He has taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Elmhurst College, and Loyola University Chicago. He specializes in early Islamic history, and his research focuses on the classical Islamic sources. Forthcoming publications include research on Karbala and Shi'i identity, the development of Qur'anic qira'at (variant readings), and early Arabic manuscripts.
Ananya Jahanara Kabir is a lecturer in postcolonial literature at the School of English, University of Leeds; she has been a research fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, and a visiting professor at University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests include contemporary [End Page 271] cultures of partitioned South Asian regions, including Punjab, Bengal (where she is from), and Kashmir, the locus of her current project on conflict and resistance.
Rashid Khalidi is Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies and director of the Middle East Institute at Columbia University. He has taught at Lebanese University, American University of Beirut, Georgetown University, and the University of Chicago. He is past president of the Middle...
