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Saad Abi-Hamad is an assistant professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern history at Texas Tech University. His current interest is in the Egypt-based nationalists and Islamic reformers of the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries and their interactions with the officials of the British Empire. He received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in May 2007. His dissertation, “Dueling Perceptions: British and Egyptian Interactions, 1882–1919,” deals with the issues of perceptions, and just as importantly misperceptions, that lead to conflict.

Nosheen Ali is a lecturer in the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on the cultural politics of citizenship, religion, and development in northern Pakistan and Kashmir. She is the author of “Books vs. Bombs? Humanitarian Development and the Narrative of Terror in Northern Pakistan,” Third World Quarterly (June 2010), and “Sectarian Imaginaries: The Micropolitics of Sectarianism and State-Making in Northern Pakistan,” Current Sociology (September 2010). She serves on the editorial board of the South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal and is cofounder of the international network GRASP (Group for Research in the Anthropology, Sociology, and Politics of Pakistan).

Ayşe Lucie Batur is a researcher on photography theory, visual culture, psychoanalysis, and cinema. She studied philosophy and cultural studies in Istanbul, and theory and criticism in the University of Western Ontario in Canada. Currently, she is writing a dissertation on the psychoanalytic underpinnings of Roland Barthes’s theory of photography.

Ian Bedford is Senior Research Scholar at Macquarie University in Sydney. He was a student in Pakistan and in India in the 1960s, and has continued to visit and research both countries. His most recent publication is “A Pattern for National Modernity: Politics in Pakistan,” in Handbook of Modernity in South Asia: Modern Makeovers, ed. Saurabh Dube (Oxford University Press, 2011). He has translated the verse of Urdu poets Khwaja Mir Dard and Muhammad Asr, with commentary, in issues of the Annual of Urdu Studies (University of Wisconsin Press, 2007 and 2010). His second novel, A View from the Bund, is set in Hyderabad, India. He is working on a fourth novel, also set in Hyderabad.

Valerie Behiery is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Montreal. Her current research focuses on the aesthetics of biculturalism in the work of Canadian women artists of Muslim descent as well as on the representation of Islam and Muslims in the Canadian media. She was recently granted a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council postdoctoral fellowship (2011–13) for a research project titled “Objects of Mistranslation: Representing the ‘Burqa’ in Canadian Daily Newspapers since 9/11.”

Ipek A. Celik is a postdoctoral fellow in the Cogut Center for the Humanities and the Department of Comparative Literature at Brown University. Her research explores theories of violence and the representation of Muslim minorities in contemporary European literature and film.

Agnes Czajka is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University College Cork in Ireland. Her areas of interest include contemporary social and political thought, citizenship studies, nationalism, and refugee and minority politics in Europe and the Mediterranean region. [End Page 270]

Mehr Afshan Farooqi is an assistant professor of Urdu and South Asian Studies in the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Virginia. Recently she was a Fellow at the Virginia Foundation of Humanities. Her research addresses issues of Urdu literary culture particularly in the context of modernity. Farooqi is the editor of The Oxford India Anthology of Modern Urdu Literature (2008), and her book on Askari, Urdu Literary Culture, Vernacular Modernity in the Writing of Muhammad Hasan Askari, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press (Delhi) and Palgrave-Macmillan (US) in 2012.

Melissa Finn is a lecturer in the Department of Political Science and the Department of Global Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. She earned her PhD in Political Science at York University.

Leila M. Harris is an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia with a joint appointment in the Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability and the Center for Gender and Women’s Studies. As a sociocultural and political...

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