Abu Husayn, Abdul-Rahim History professor and Chairman of the Department of History and Archaeology, American University of Beirut, Lebanon.
Asani, Ali S. Professor at the Departments of The Study of Religion and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, USA
al-Tawil, Hashim Professor and Chair of the Art History Program, Henry Ford Community College, Dearborn and a Lecturer of Islamic Art and Architecture and Arab Studies at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, Michigan, USA.
Adam, Heribert Professor Emeritus at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Aoudé, Ibrahim G. Chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies, College of Social Sciences, University of Hawaii at Mana, Honolulu, Hawaii
Allan, J. A. Professor at the Department of Geography and Head of the Water Research Group, King's College London/School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK.
Al-Hmood, Majdi Hussein Researcher and Project Coordinator at the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies. He holds a Master's Degree in European Studies from the Heinrich Heine University, Germany.
Abattouy, Mohammed Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Letters, Dhar el-Mehraz, Fez University, Morocco
al-Ali, Nadje Lecturer at the Centre for Gender Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK
Agopian, Nathalie Holds a master's degree in Islamic Christian Studies. She is currently writing her PhD thesis on Sectarianism and Human values in Ziad Rahbani's theatre shows.
Al-Uqayli, Tāriq Majīd Professor at the history Department, Faculty of Education (Ibn Rushd), Baghdad University, Baghdad, Iraq.
Antrim, Zayde G. Doctoral student at the Department of History, Harvard University, USA.
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Burnett, Charles Lecturer on the History of Arab/Islamic Influence in Europe in the Middle Ages, the Warburg Institute, University of London, UK
Baumann, Gerd Professor of Anthropology, Research Centre Religion and Society, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Beinin, Joel Professor of Middle East History, Stanford University, USA
Bintliff, John L. Professor of Classical and Mediterranean Archaeology in the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, the Netherlands
Bozorgmehr, Mehdi Associate Professor of Sociology, City College of the City University of New York, USA
Bamyeh, Mohammed A. Visiting Professor in the Sociology Depart-ment, State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, USA
Brown, Nathan J. Professor of Political Science and International Affairs and Director of the Middle Eastern Studies Program, the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
Brentjes, Sonja Researcher at the Institute for the History of Science, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Beeman, William 0. Associate Professor of Anthropology and Theatre, Speech and Dance and Director of Middle East Studies, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Ben-Dor, Zvi Aziz Professor at the Department of Population Studies, University of Botswana
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Cameron, Averil Warden of Keble College, Oxford University and Visiting Professor, London University, UK
Cherifi, Brahim Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Department of Historical, Political and Technical Anthropology, University of Paris VIII, France.
Caroll, Jane Architect, she studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. She was Secretary of the Ibn Arabi Society in America from 1983 -2022.
Crook, John Retired professor at the Department of Psychology, Bristol University, UK
Chiarelli, Leonard C. Middle East Librarian at the Aziz S. Atiya Middle East Library, Marriott Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Cainkar, Louise Senior Research Scholar at the Great Cities Institute, University of Illinois-Chicago, USA
Campanini, Massimo Associate professor of History of the Islamic Countries at University of Trento and a member of the Accademia Ambrosiana of Milan.
Chrabieh, Pamela Artist, researcher, activist, writer, and consultant. She holds a Ph.D. in Theology-Sciences of Religions. She is the Program Manager at Dar al-Kalima University, Bethlehem.
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Destro, Adriana Tenured professor of Cultural Anthropology at University of Bologna, and president of the degree course in Anthropology and Ethnography of the same university.
Dallal, Ahmad Associate Professor at the Department of History, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA - Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Yale University, USA
Dhanani, Alnoor Independent scholar residing in Lexington, Massachusetts, USA
Dastmalchian, Amir Research fellow at the Islamic College (London) and the University of Geneva. His research interests cover philosophy of religion, interreligious dialogue, and Islamic studies
Darwish, Diana Researcher at the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Spanish Language and Literature from the Jordanian University, Jordan
Daftary, Farhad Head of the Department of Academic Research and Publication, Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, UK
Donnan, Hastings Professor at the School of Anthropological Studies, The Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
de Jong, Joop Director of the Transcultural Psychosocial Organization (TPO), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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El Bouazzati, Bennacer Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Letters and Humanities, Mohamed V University, Agdal, Rabat, Morocco.
Eisenbruch, Maurice Director and Professor of Multicultural Health, the Centre for Culture and Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
El-Cheikh, Nadia Maria Assistant Professor at the Department of History and Archaeology, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
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Fortna, Benjamin C. Professor in the History of the Middle East at the Department of History, School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK
Finlayson, Bill Regional Director of the Council for British Research in the Levant and Visiting Professor in Archaeology at the University of Reading, UK
Fattah, Hala Independent scholar and a specialist in Iraqi/Gulf history.
Fleming, K. E. Assistant Professor in the Departments of History and Middle Eastern Studies, and in the A. S. Onassis Program in Hellenic Studies, New York University, USA
Flikke, Rune Visiting Scholar at the African Studies Center, Boston University, USA
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Ghazal, Amal Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Departments of History and Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Gallagher, Eugene B. Professor at the Department of Behavioral Science, University of Kentucky, USA
Gerber, Jane S. Director of the Institute for Sephardic Studies and Professor of Jewish History, City University of New York Graduate School, USA
Grabar, Oleg Professor at the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Garuti, Paolo Tenured professor of Exegesis of the New Testament at Pontificia Universita di San Tommaso in Rome.
Griffith, Sidney H. Professor at the Department of Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literatures, Catholic University of America, USA
Gulbrandsen, Ømulf Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen, Norway
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Higgins, Annie C. Visiting Assistant Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the Department of African and Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
Havemann, Axel Associate Lecturer at the Institute of Islamic Studies, Free University of Berlin, Germany
Hamber, Brandon Associate of Democratic Dialogue, a policy think-tank in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and an Associate of the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, Johannesburg, South Africa
Horn, Cornelia B. Assistant Professor of Greek and Oriental Patristics at the Department of Theological Studies, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA.
Hoerder, Dirk Professor of North American social history and history of migrations at the Department of Social Sciences, University of Bremen, Germany
H. Lawson, Fred Professor at the Department of Government and Frderick A. Rice Chair, Mills College, Oakland, California, USA
Hamza, Husayn Retired archaeologist residing in Baghdad, Iraq
Hudson, Michael C. Professor of International Relations and Seif Ghobash Professor at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, USA
Humphrey, Michael Senior Lecturer at the School of Sociology, University of New South Wales in Sidney, Australia
Hattar, Renee Director of the Royal Institute for Inter-faith Studies. She holds a PhD in Peace Studies from the University of Granada-Spain.
Hassan, Riaz Director and Professor at the Department of Sociology, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.
Haq, S. Nomanul Faculty of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Hodos, Tamar Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, the University of Bristol, UK.
Hummel, Thomas C. Teaches historical theology at Virginia Theological Seminary and Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Virginia, USA. He is a Senior Fellow of the Christian Heritage Research Institute in Jerusalem
Huff, Toby E. Chancellor Professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA
Hoffman, Valerie J. Associate Professor of Religion, Program for the Study of Religion, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA.
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Isakhan, Benjamin Ph.D. Candidate and Research Assistant at the School of Arts, Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus, Queensland, Australia
Iqbal, Javid Pakistani philosopher and senior justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan. He passed away in 2015
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Janes, Craig R. Professor at the Departments of Anthropology and Health and Behavioral Sciences, and Associate Director of the Center for Global Health Studies, University of Colorado at Denver, USA
Kapferer, Bruce Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen, Norway
Kessler, Edward Founder Director of the Woolf Institute. He is a tenured professor of Exegesis of the New Testament at Pontificia Universita di San Tommaso in Rome.
Kapeller, Elias Researcher, scholar of religion and intern at Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies. He holds a Master’s Degree in Religious and Cultural Studies from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany.
Köpping, Elizabeth Lecturer at the Institute of Ethnology, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Koser, Khalid Lecturer in Human Geography at University College London, and Member of the Migration Research Unit, UK
Köpping, Klaus-Peter Professor at the Institute of Ethnology, University of Heidelberg, Germany and is presently on sabbatical in Japan.
Kazmierczyk, Olivier Doctoral candidate in the History of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Paris X, Nanterre, France
Kippax, Susan Director of the National Centre in HIV Social Research and Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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Loosley, Emma Lecturer in Oriental Christian and Early Islamic Art, University of Manchester, UK
Lindner, Evelin Medical Doctor and Psychologist. She is the Founding President of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS) and Co-Founder of the World Dignity University Initiative.
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Makhlouf, Avril M. Fellow of the Institute of Christian Oriental Research, Catholic University of America, USA
Morales de la Barrera, Emilio Director of the Institute of Philosophy at San Sebastián University, Santiago, Chile. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the International Academy of Philosophy in the Principality of Liechtenstein and at the Pontificia Universidad Católica, Santiago, Chile.
McCallum, Fiona Ph.D. candidate and teaches at the School of International Relations, University of St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, UK
Mitchell, Gordon Professor at the German-Jordanian University. He holds a PhD in Cultural and Historical Studies, University of Heidelberg, Germany.
Makhoul, Jihad Assistant Professor and Director of the Health Education Resource Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Manger, Leif Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen, Norway
Madros, Peter Ordained a Priest in Jerusalem in 1972. Doctorate in biblical theology from the Urbanian University in Rome, in 1982 Doctorate in biblical sciences before the Pontifical Biblical Commission in 1984.
Min, Pyong Gap Professor of Sociology, Queens College of the City University of New York, USA
Mandour, Sami Muhammad Professor at the French language Department at the Faculty of Languages and Translation at Al Azhar University, Egypt
Milich, Stephan Writing his Ph.D. thesis on Contemporary Palestinian and Iraqi Exile Poetry at the Orientalische Seminar in Freiburg, Germany
Mourad, Suleiman A. Ph.D candidate in Islamic Studies at Yale University, USA - Assistant Professor at the Department of Religion, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA
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Nordstrom, Carolyn Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology and Fellow of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
Nederveen Pieterse, Jan Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, USA
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O'Connor, Andrew J. Assistant Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin (USA). He holds a Ph.D. from the University f Notre Dame.
O'Mahony, Anthony Director of the Centre for Christianity and Inter-religious Dialogue, Heythrop College, University of London, UK
Obermeyer, Gerald Research fellow at the Department of Anthropology, Boston University, USA.
Oucho, John O. Professor at the Department of Population Studies, University of Botswana
Okuda, Kazuhiko Professor of International Relations, Ferris University, Yokohama, Japan
Pieri, Caecilia Ph.D. Student and Researcher at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and Chief Editor at Editions du patrimoine, Paris, France
Perez-Bustillo, Camilo Director of Immigrant and Refugee Rights, the American Friends Service Committee, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Poulain, Michel Professor at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium
Phenix, Robert R. Lecturer and researcher at the Department of theological Studies, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
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Robinson, Mike Chair of Cultural Heritage at the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity, University of Birmingham, UK
Roussos, Sotiris Lecturer of Near East Politics and International Relations and Coordinator of the Centre for Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Studies, Institute of International Relations (IIR), Panteion University, Athens, Greece
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Shehata, Alya Editor at BRIIFS and a Certified Dance Movement Therapist. She holds an MA in Comparative Literature and Exile Studies from Cairo University.
Schimmel, Annemarie Retired professor of Indo-Muslim Culture, Harvard University, USA, presently living in Bonn, Germany.
Sanjian, Ara Assistant Professor of History, Haigazian University, Beirut, Lebanon
Saliba, George Professor of Arabic and Islamic Science at the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University, New York, USA, and at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Saul, Jack Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine and Director of the International Trauma Studies Program, New York University, New York, New York, USA.
Saliba, John A. Professor at the Religious Studies Department, University of Detroit Mercy, USA.
Spath, L.Michael (1999) Ph.D. candidate in Historical Theology, Saint Louis University, USA.
(2000) Assistant Professor of Theology specializing in Comparative Religion, University of Saint Francis, USA
(2004) Lecturer in Religion in the Philosophy Department, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, Indiana, ÚSA.
Sawwaf, Layla Researcher and translator at the Royal Institute for In-ter-Faith Studies, she holds a Master's Degree in Literary Studies from the University of Damascus, Syria
Szalay, Mátyás Director of the Instituto de Filosofía Edith Stein in Granada, Spain. He received his doctorate in philosophy from the International Academy of Philosophy in Liechtenstein and his habilitation from the University of Pécs, Hungary
Snir, Reuven Professor of Arabic Language and Literature, University of Haifa, Israel
Seikaly, Samir Professor at the Department of History and Archaeology, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Shami, Seteney Anthropologist and Director of MEAwards at The Population Council, Cairo, Egypt.
Schreiner, Stefan Senior Professor of Comparative Study of Religions and Jewish Studies at the University of Tuebingen; advisor to the President of the University of Tuebingen on matters related to the further development of the Centre for Islamic Theology and intercultural/interreligious dialogue.
Snape, Steven Senior Lecturer in Egyptian Archaeology and Director of Archaeological Collections and Keeper of the Garstang Museum of Archaeology, University of Liverpool, UK
Timani, Hussam S. Assistant Professor of Religion and Islamic Studies at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Christopher Newport University, Newport News, Virginia, USA
Torpey, John Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Talia, Shawqi Lecturer in Arabic and Islamic Studies at the Department of Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literatures, the Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, USA
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Valverde, Estela Research Fellow at the School of Modern Languages, University of New South Wales, Sidney, Australia
Van der Leun, Joanne Ph.D. candidate and Researcher at the Department of Sociology, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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Wheeler, Brannon Visiting Distinguished Professor of History and Politics and Director of the Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies, Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, USA
Williams, Brian Glyn Lecturer in Middle Eastern History at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK
Wee, C. J. W.-L. Assistant Professor at the English Language and Literature Academic Group, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Whitman, Jim "Lecturer in the Department of Peace Studies, Bradford
University, UK, co-editor of the Journal of Humanitarian Assistance and
general editor of the Palgrave Global Issues book series"
Whittow, Mark University Lecturer and Fellow in Byzantine Studies, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, UK
Weine, Stevan Researcher, writer, teacher and clinician in the Department of Psychiatry, and Director of the International Center of Human Responses to Social Catastrophes, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
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Young, Allan Professor and Chair of the Department of Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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Şeşen, Ramazan Head of the Manuscripts Department at the Research Centre for Islamic History, Art and Culture (IRCICA) and Chairman of the Department of History, Faculty of Science and Letters, Mimar Sinan University, Istanbul, Turkey
