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xiii Contributors Rabab Abdulhadi is an Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies/Race and Resistance Studies and Senior Scholar in the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Initiative, College of Ethnic Studies, San Francisco State University. She is the coauthor of Mobilizing Democracy: Changing U.S. Policy in the Middle East. Her work has appeared in Gender and Society, Radical History Review, Peace Review, Journal of Women’s History, Taiba, Women and Cultural Discourses, Cuadernos Metodologicos: Estudio de Casos, This Bridge We Call Home, New World Coming: The 1960s and the Shaping of Global Consciousness, Local Actions: Cultural Activism, Power and Public Life in America, The Guardian, Al-Fajr, Womanews, Palestine Focus, Voice of Palestinian Women, and several Arabic-language publications. Dena Al-Adeeb is an Iraqi visual artist, educator, writer, and activist-organizer living in San Francisco. She worked in the multimedia and e-learning industries as a graphic designer, illustrator, publisher, and user-interface architect and taught at Expression College for Digital Arts. Her work has been presented and exhibited nationally and internationally at the Arab American National Museum in Michigan, SomaArts Gallery in San Francisco, Mashrabia Gallery in Cairo, Karim Francis Gallery in Cairo, and Falaki Gallery in Cairo, among others. Dena has also been published in Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics and the Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology, among others. Evelyn Alsultany is an Assistant Professor in the Program in American Culture at the University of Michigan. She is currently completing a book manuscript, tentatively entitled, “Arabs and Muslims in the U.S. Media Post-9/11.” She is coeditor (with Ella Shohat) of the forthcoming volume The Cultural Politics of the Middle East in the Americas. She is the guest curator of an exhibit, “DisORIENTation: Arabs and Arab Americans in the U.S. Popular Imagination” at the Arab American National Museum. She has published in American Quarterly, Race and Arab Americans Before and After 9/11, The Arab Diaspora, This Bridge We Call Home, and Mixing It Up. xiv | Contributors Anan Ameri is the Founding Director of the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. She has been with ACCESS since 1997 as the Director of the Cultural Arts Program, which led the project plans for the museum. She has more than thirty years of experience working with Arab American communities and is the author of several books and articles. Amal Amireh is an Associate Professor of English at George Mason University. She is the author of The Factory Girl and the Seamstress: Imagining Gender and Class in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction and coeditor (with Lisa Suhair Majaj) of Going Global: The Transnational Reception of Third World Women Writers and Etel Adnan: Critical Essays on the Arab-American Writer and Artist. Her essay “Between Complicity and Subversion: Body Politics in Palestinian National Narrative” won the Florence Howe Award for best essay from a feminist perspective. Janaan Attia is an Egyptian Copt raised in Los Angeles and is currently living in Oakland, California. She is a registered nurse dedicated to working in community health with elders of color. She has been involved in grassroots organizing since high school and has worked on issues ranging from violence in the home to teaching social justice education in high schools. She served as a member of the organizing committee for the Arab Movement of Women Arising for Justice, a historic conference of Arab and Arab American women in 2006. Emanne Bayoumi is a cultural activist, performance artist, and DJ. Oakland is her home, and Egypt is her homeland. Moulouk Berry is an Assistant Professor of Modern and Classical Languages in the Department of Language, Communication, and Culture at the University of Michigan–Dearborn. She served as the interim director for the first and only Center for Arab American Studies in the United States and is currently directing the Arabic-language program at the University of Michigan–Dearborn. Her publications include “Rethinking Notions of Sexuality: Muslim Legal Writings,” “Teaching Scriptural Texts in the Classroom: The Question of Gender,” “The Women’s Right to Occupy Position of Judge in Muslim Shi‘i Law,” and “Lebanon,” a chapter in the WorldMark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices. In addition to her academic work, Berry writes fiction and poetry in English and Arabic. Youmna Chlala is a writer and an artist, born in Beirut and currently based in California. She was the founding editor of the Eleven Eleven {1111} Journal of Literature and Art. Nominated for a Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, she has published her...

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