, Ellias Kapeller is 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.
Sylvia Khela is researcher and intern at Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Stud-ies. She is currently a master's student in International Humanitarian Action at the university of Warsaw, Poland and Uppsala University, Sweden
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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
Adam, Heribert Professor Emeritus at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Aoudé, Ibrahim G. Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Hawaii, Manoa
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
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
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.
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
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
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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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
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
Hoerder, Dirk Professor of North American social history and history of migrations at the Department of Social Sciences, University of Bremen, Germany
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
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.
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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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
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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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.
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
Min, Pyong Gap Professor of Sociology, Queens College of the City University of New York, USA
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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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
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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
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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
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.
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
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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"
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
