Contributors
- Contributors
Mona Abaza is a visiting professor at the Department of Theology, Lund University, and was chair of the department from 2007–2009. Her research interests include the religious and cultural networks between the Middle East and Southeast Asia, the Hadhrami diaspora in Southeast Asia, and consumer culture in Egypt. Her most recent publiocation is The Changing Consumer Culture of Modern Egypt, Cairo's Urban Reshaping (Brill/Urban Affairs Center press, 2006).
Sadik J. Al-Azm is a professor emeritus of modern European philosophy at the University of Damascus in Syria. A frequent contributor to CSSAAME, his published works include Kant's Theory of Time (Philosophical Library, 1967), The Origins of Kant's Arguments in the Antinomies (Clarendon, 1972), and Four Philosophical Essays (Damascus University, 1980). Arabic publications include Critique of Religious Thought (1969; 15th edition, 2008), Materialism and History: A Defense (1991), and The Tabooing Mentality: Salman Rushdie and the Truth of Literature (1994; 5th edition, 1999).
Mark Muhannad Ayyash is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at York University and a researcher at the York Centre for International and Security Studies. He has previously published on the Iraq war in neoconservative discourse and has a forthcoming publication on the encounter between Hamas and the Israeli state. His dissertation explores the Israeli-Palestinian fight for Jerusalem, al-Quds.
Timothy Baker graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth College in 2008 with a double honors major in religion and Jewish studies. At Dartmouth he served as a research assistant to Susannah Heschel. He is pursuing a master of theological studies in Jewish studies at Harvard Divinity School, where his focus is the history of exegesis and interaction between Jewish and Christian communities in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages.
Reem Bassiouney is an assistant professor of Arabic language and linguistics at Georgetown University. Her publications include Functions of Code- Switching in Egypt (Brill, 2006), Arabic Sociolinguistics (Georgetown University Press, 2009), and Arabic and the Mass Media (Brill, forthcoming in 2010). She is also the author of four novels, including The Pistachio Seller (Syracuse University Press, 2009).
Tobias Brinkmann is the Malvin and Lea Bank Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and History at Penn State University. He is the author of From Gemeinde to Community: Jewish Immigrants in Chicago, 1840–1900 (Rasch, 2002) and has published articles in the International Review of Social History, Jewish History, and the Journal of Modern Jewish Studies. He is currently working on a history of the Jewish mass migration from Eastern Europe between 1860 and 1950.
Nandini Chandra is an assistant professor at the English Department, Delhi University. She is the author of The Classic Popular: Amar Chitra Katha, 1967–2007 (Yoda, 2008).
Walid El Khachab is an assistant professor of Arabic studies in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at York University. He has published extensively on Sufi motifs in cinema and literature and on Arabic popular culture. His recent publications include the essay "Ironies Urbaines" ("Urban Ironies") in Humour et ironie dans les littératures et le cinéma francophones (Humor and Irony in Francophone Literature and Cinema) (Editions mémoire de l'encrier, 2008). He is currently working on a book manuscript titled "The Rhetoric of Melodrama."
Moha Ennaji is a professor of Arabic at Rutgers University and the president of the South North Center for Intercultural Dialogue and Migration Studies, Morocco. His recent publications are Migration and Gender in Morocco, coauthored with Fatima Sadiqi (Red Sea Press, 2008); Migration et diversité culturelle (Fedala Press, 2007); and Multilingualism, Cultural Identity, and Education in Morocco (Springer, 2005). [End Page 159]
Susannah Heschel is the Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies in the Department of Religion at Dartmouth College. She is the author of The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany (Princeton University Press, 2008) and Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus (University of Chicago Press, 1998) and the coeditor of Insider / Outsider: American Jews and Multiculturalism (University of California Press, 1998). The recipient of a Carnegie Foundation scholar's grant, she is writing a book on the history of Jewish scholarship on Islam.
Malek Khouri is an associate professor and head of the communication division at...
