Contributors
- Contributors
Lila Abu-Lughod is Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University and Director of the Center for the Critical Analysis of Social Difference. She teaches Anthropology and Women's and Gender Studies. Her courses focus on gender politics and nationalism in the Muslim world, and liberalism, culture, and the politics of human and women's rights. She is the author of three award-winning ethnographies based on fieldwork in Egypt (Veiled Sentiments, Writing Women's Worlds, and Dramas of Nationhood) and has edited or co-edited several books including Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East, and Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory. She is currently researching the politics and ethics of the international circulation of discourses on Muslim women's rights. She was a 2007 Carnegie Scholar.
Jasmin Darznik is Assistant Professor of English at Washington and Lee University and Visiting Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Virginia. A former Steinbeck Fellow in Creative Writing, she is also an award-winning short story writer and essayist and has contributed to the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and San Francisco Chronicle. The story of four generations of her family in Iran and America, The Good Daughter, is forthcoming in the US from Grand Central and iGood in Europe from Random House. She is currently at work on a novel set in 1950s Iran and a scholarly study of the art and literature of the Iranian diaspora. [End Page 145]
Noor Al-Qasimi received her Ph.D. in Film and Television from the University of Warwick in 2007. She is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, and has held visiting fellowships at the Center for Gender and Sexuality at NYU and the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies at Duke University. She is the author of "Ladies and Gentlemen, Boyahs and Girls: Uploading Transnational Queer Subjectivities in the United Arab Emirates," forthcoming in Tracking Visibilities, ed. Radha Hegde (NYU Press). She has contributed to Camera Obscura and Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Her research interests include critical and cultural theory, gender and sexuality, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, queer theory, film and television studies, new media, and responses to globalization, transnationalisms, and neoliberalism in the Arab Gulf region. She is currently working on a book manuscript on anticipatory governance, biopolitics, and the Emirati post-oil generation.
David Simonowitz is Visiting Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. He has taught Arabic language, "Islam in America," "Art of Empires," "Visual Culture of the Modern Middle East," "Religion, Rhetoric, and Representation," "Women in Modern Islamic Art," "History of the Middle East," and various courses on the history of art in the premodern and modern periods at Otis College, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the University of California, Los Angeles. His research interests range from calligraphy, sacred space, and communal conflict to political art and propaganda. He also has an interest in cross-cultural and cross-temporal literary currents. He has conducted research in multiple countries of the Middle East, and among Muslim immigrant communities in North America and Europe. He is a member of the American Academy of Religion Consultation on Space, Place, and Religious Meaning. At present he is preparing a book on modern Islamic architecture and visual culture. [End Page 146]
