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319 Contributors Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp is Professor of History at Sonoma State University in California. She is the author of So Far from Allah, So Close to Mexico: Middle Eastern Immigrants in Modern Mexico (University of Texas Press, 2007). Her work has appeared in Law and History Review, Hispanic American Historical Review, the Americas and Comparative Studies of South Asia and the Middle East. She has also co-authored articles in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention regarding cancer incidence among Latinos/Hispanics. Evelyn Azeeza Alsultany is an Associate Professor in the Department of American Culture at the University of Michigan. She is coeditor (with Nadine Naber and Rabab Abdulhadi) of Arab and Arab American Feminisms (Syracuse University Press, 2010) and author of Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race and Representation after 9/11 (NYU Press, 2012). She is the guest curator of an online exhibit, Reclaiming Identity: Dismantling Arab Stereotypes (www.arabstereotypes.org) with the Arab American National Museum. Jacob Rama Berman is an Associate Professor of English Literature and Comparative Literature at Louisiana State University. He is the author of American Arabesque: Arab, Islam, and the 19th-Century Imaginary (NYU Press, 2012). Christina Civantos is an Associate Professor of Spanish and Arabic at the University of Miami (Florida). She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California at Berkeley and researches and teaches in the fields of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish American and Arabic literary and cultural studies. Her work centers on Arab diaspora communities in the Americas, Orientalism in Latin America, nationalism, the politics of language, and crosscultural representation in the Global South. Her publications include Between Argentines and Arabs: Argentine Orientalism, Arab Immigrants, and the Writing of Identity (SUNY Press, 2006). Heba El Attar is an Associate Professor of Spanish and Arabic at Cleveland State University. Her research focuses on the Arab Diaspora in Latin America and the ensuing dialogue between Latin America and the Arab world. Her publications center on the cultural performance of Palestinian-Chileans. Ziad Elmarsafy teaches in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York (UK). He recently published the award-winning The Enlightenment Qur’an: The Politics of Translation and the Construction of Islam (One- 320 / Contributors world, 2009). His next book, Sufism in the Contemporary Arabic Novel, is due out in 2012 from Edinburgh University Press. Amira Jarmakani is an Associate Professor of Women’s Studies at Georgia State University. She is the author of Imagining Arab Womanhood: The Cultural Mythology of Veils, Harems, and Belly Dancers in the U.S. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), which won the NWSA Gloria Anzaldúa 2008 book prize. Additional publications have appeared in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, American Quarterly, and the edited collection Arab & Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, and Belonging. She works in the fields of women’s and gender studies, Arab American studies, and cultural studies, and she is currently at work on a book about the popularity of the “sheikh” hero in mass market romance novels , tentatively titled Romancing the War on Terror: Mapping U.S. Imperial Desires through Desert Romances. John Tofik Karam is trained in cultural anthropology, and a core faculty member in the Latin American and Latino studies program at DePaul University. His book, Another Arabesque: Syrian-Lebanese Ethnicity in Neoliberal Brazil (Temple University Press, 2007), has won awards from the Arab American National Museum (AANM) and the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA). Karam’s current research excavates the history of Arab mercantile and political figures in the triborder between Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina. Sunaina Maira is a Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California , Davis. She is the author of Desis in the House: Indian American Youth Culture in New York City and coeditor of Youthscapes: The Popular, the National, the Global and Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America, which won the American Book Award in 1997. Her latest book, Missing: Youth, Citizenship, and Empire after 9/11 (Duke University Press), is on South Asian Muslim immigrant youth in the United States and issues of citizenship and empire after 9/11. Junaid Rana is an Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His book Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in the South Asian Diaspora (Duke, 2011) addresses the relationship of Islamophobia, the global racial system, and transnational labor migration. Helle Rytkønen is a Lecturer in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at...

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