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Staff

Dr. Ovamir Anjum

Founder & Chief Research Officer

Dr. Uthman Badar

Research Operations Manager and Lead Editor

Abdullah Haroon

Marketing Operations

Syed Athar Husain

Director of Operations

Ilham Ibrahim

Researcher and Colloquium Coordinator

Abdelrahman Ibrahim

Colloquium Lead

Dr Joseph Kaminski

Research Associate and Symposium Coordinator

Ashraf Motiwala

President

Ahsan Shafiq

Director of Türkiye Operations

Research Fellows

Younis Sarwer

PhD Candidate in Political Science, Georgia State University, Atlanta

Sarah Musazay

Research Fellow, Political Economy

Ahmed Elbohy

Research Fellow, Political Science

Dr. Mehmet Artik

Islamic Political Economist, Researcher and Educator

Contributing Writers

Dr. Farhan Anshary

Doctoral Student, Newcastle University, UK

Dr. Shadee Elmasry

Teacher, New Brunswick Islamic Center, and Head of Safina Society, New Jersey

Ali Harfouch

Researcher and Writer on Islamic political theology and modern political theory

Dr. Muzaffar Iqbal

President, Center for Islamic Sciences

Dr. Hafsa Kanjwal

Assistant Professor of History, Lafayette College

Ibrahim Moiz

Ummatics Contributing Writer

Aisha Hasan

Researcher and Course Instructor

Massoud Vahedi

Academic and Researcher, Canada

Dr. Jaan Islam

Political Theorist, Specializing in Decolonial Theory and Islamic Jurisprudence

Asim Ayub

Resident Instructor, Karima Foundation, UK

Dr. Asim Qureshi

Research Director, CAGE

Dr. Omar Suleiman

Founder and President, Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research

Mobeen Vaid

Muslim Public Intellectual and Writer

Yousef Wahb

Islamic Law Instructor, University of Windsor’s Faculty of Law

Colloquium Contributors

Wadah Khanfar

President and co-founder of Al Sharq Forum

Zaid Al-Ali

Constitutional Law Expert

Dr. Khairudin Aljunied

Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore

Dr. Abdullah Al-Arian

Associate Professor of History, Georgetown University in Qatar

Hasbi Aswar

Assistant Professor of International Relations, Head of Social Data Science Laboratory, Islamic University of Indonesia

Dr. Ahmed El Shamsy

Professor of Islamic Thought, Department Chair of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago

Dr. Yasmeen Daifallah

Assistant Professor of Politics, University of California, Santa Cruz

Dr. Noor Ghazal Aswad

Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies, University of Alabama

Dr. Tanzeen Doha

University of Pittsburgh

Dr. Mahmudur Rahman

Editor, Bangladeh’s ‘Amar Desh’

Dr. Rafik Abdessalem

Ex-Foreign Minister of Tunisia

Dr. Abdullah Sahin

University of Warwick

Dr. Jamel Akbar

Theorist and Professor of
Architecture

Dr. Farah Ahmed

Chair of Trustees and Director of Education, Shakhsiyah Schools

Dr. Mohamed S. Ebeida

Itkan Institute of Technology

Dr. Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Laila Al-Arian

Journalist and Executive Producer, Al Jazeera English

Dr. Ramzy Baroud

Editor of Palestine Chronicle and Former Managing Editor of Middle East Eye

Yahya Birt

Research Director, Ayaan Institute, UK

Dr. Kamal Funsho Badrdeen

Common Law and Shari’ah Researcher, University of Abuja, Nigeria

Dr. Jonathan Brown

Alwaleed bin Talal Chair of Islamic Civilization, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Hamdija Begovic

Doctoral Student, Sweden

Dr. Safaruk Chowdhury

Research Scholar in Islamic theology and philosophy, Ibn Rushd Centre of Excellence for Islamic Research

Saifuddin Dhuhri

Lecturer, State Institute for Religious Studies, Aceh, Indonesia

Dr. Mohamad Hamas Elmasry

Professor of Media Studies, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar

Dr. Khadijah Elshayyal

Associate Fellow, Alwaleed Centre, University of Edinburgh

Sadek Hamid

Research Fellow, University of Wales Trinity Saint David

Sami Hamdi

Managing Director, International Interest

Dr. Kamal Hussain

PhD Islamic Studies, SOAS University of London

Dr. Shadi Hamid

Senior Fellow, Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution

Iyad Hilal

Islamic Scholar

Dr. Basit Iqbal

Assistant Professor of Anthropology, McMaster University, Canada

James Jones

Executive VP, Islamic Seminary of America and Professor Emeritus of World Religions and African Studies, Manhattanville College

Dr. Katrin Jomaa

Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Rhode Island

Raja Jureidini

Professor of Migration Ethics and Human Rights, Hamad bin Khalifa University, Qatar

Dr. Riham Khafagy

Assistant Professor at the College of Humanities and Social Science, Zayed University, UAE

Dr. Muhammad Khalifa

Senior Fellow

Dr. Salman al-Azami

Senior lecturer in Language, Media and Communication, Liverpool Hope University

Dr. Monzer Kahf

Professor of Islamic Finance & Economics, Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University, Turkey

Darryl Li

Assistant Professor of Anthropology, and Social Sciences, University of Chicago and Associate Member, University of Chicago Law School

Dr. Jonathan Laurence

Professor of Political Science and Director, Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy, Boston College

Dr. Adeel Malik

The Globe Fellow in the Economies of Muslim Societies and Associate Professor, University of Oxford

Hossam El Din Mohammed

Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, Karabuk University, Turkey

Michael Munnik

Senior Lecturer in Social Science Theories and Methods, Director of Learning and Teaching, Cardiff University

Dr. Nadia Mostafa

Emeritus Professor of International Relations, Cairo University, Egypt

Dr. Medhat Maher

Director of Al-Hadara Center of Studies and Research, Egypt

Thomas Parker

Ummatics Contributing Writer

Dr. Walaa Quisay

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Edinburgh

Dr. Muneeza Rizvi

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley

Dr. Heba Raouf-Ezzat

Assistant Professor of Political Science, Institute of Alliance of Civilizations, Ibn Haldun University, Turkey

Syaza Shukri

Assistant Professor of Political Science, International Islamic University Malaysia

Saul Takahashi

Professor of Human Rights and Peace Studies, Osaka Jogakuin University, Japan

SherAli Tareen

Associate Professor and Department Chair of Religious Studies, Franklin and Marshall College

Dr. Alexander Thurston

Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Cincinnati

Dr Fadi Zatari

Assistant Professor of Political Science, Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University, Turkey

Meetup Guests

Dr. Mohammad Affan

Director, Al Sharq Academia

Dr. Haitham al Haddad

Chair of the Fatwa Committee, The Islamic Council of Europe, UK

Staff

Dr. Ovamir Anjum

Founder & Chief Research Officer

Dr. Uthman Badar

Research Operations Manager and Lead Editor

Abdullah Haroon

Marketing Operations

Syed Athar Husain

Director of Operations

Ilham Ibrahim

Researcher and Colloquium Coordinator

Abdelrahman Ibrahim

Colloquium Lead

Dr Joseph Kaminski

Research Associate and Symposium Coordinator

Ashraf Motiwala

President

Ahsan Shafiq

Director of Türkiye Operations

Research Fellows

Younis Sarwer

PhD Candidate in Political Science, Georgia State University, Atlanta

Sarah Musazay

Research Fellow, Political Economy

Ahmed Elbohy

Research Fellow, Political Science

Dr. Mehmet Artik

Islamic Political Economist, Researcher and Educator

Contributing Writers

Dr. Farhan Anshary

Doctoral Student, Newcastle University, UK

Dr. Shadee Elmasry

Teacher, New Brunswick Islamic Center, and Head of Safina Society, New Jersey

Ali Harfouch

Researcher and Writer on Islamic political theology and modern political theory

Dr. Muzaffar Iqbal

President, Center for Islamic Sciences

Dr. Hafsa Kanjwal

Assistant Professor of History, Lafayette College

Ibrahim Moiz

Ummatics Contributing Writer

Aisha Hasan

Researcher and Course Instructor

Massoud Vahedi

Academic and Researcher, Canada

Dr. Jaan Islam

Political Theorist, Specializing in Decolonial Theory and Islamic Jurisprudence

Asim Ayub

Resident Instructor, Karima Foundation, UK

Dr. Asim Qureshi

Research Director, CAGE

Dr. Omar Suleiman

Founder and President, Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research

Mobeen Vaid

Muslim Public Intellectual and Writer

Yousef Wahb

Islamic Law Instructor, University of Windsor’s Faculty of Law

Colloquium Contributors

Wadah Khanfar

President and co-founder of Al Sharq Forum

Zaid Al-Ali

Constitutional Law Expert

Dr. Khairudin Aljunied

Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore

Dr. Abdullah Al-Arian

Associate Professor of History, Georgetown University in Qatar

Hasbi Aswar

Assistant Professor of International Relations, Head of Social Data Science Laboratory, Islamic University of Indonesia

Dr. Ahmed El Shamsy

Professor of Islamic Thought, Department Chair of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago

Dr. Yasmeen Daifallah

Assistant Professor of Politics, University of California, Santa Cruz

Dr. Noor Ghazal Aswad

Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies, University of Alabama

Dr. Tanzeen Doha

University of Pittsburgh

Dr. Mahmudur Rahman

Editor, Bangladeh’s ‘Amar Desh’

Dr. Rafik Abdessalem

Ex-Foreign Minister of Tunisia

Dr. Abdullah Sahin

University of Warwick

Dr. Jamel Akbar

Theorist and Professor of
Architecture

Dr. Farah Ahmed

Chair of Trustees and Director of Education, Shakhsiyah Schools

Dr. Mohamed S. Ebeida

Itkan Institute of Technology

Dr. Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Laila Al-Arian

Journalist and Executive Producer, Al Jazeera English

Dr. Ramzy Baroud

Editor of Palestine Chronicle and Former Managing Editor of Middle East Eye

Yahya Birt

Research Director, Ayaan Institute, UK

Dr. Kamal Funsho Badrdeen

Common Law and Shari’ah Researcher, University of Abuja, Nigeria

Dr. Jonathan Brown

Alwaleed bin Talal Chair of Islamic Civilization, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Hamdija Begovic

Doctoral Student, Sweden

Dr. Safaruk Chowdhury

Research Scholar in Islamic theology and philosophy, Ibn Rushd Centre of Excellence for Islamic Research

Saifuddin Dhuhri

Lecturer, State Institute for Religious Studies, Aceh, Indonesia

Dr. Mohamad Hamas Elmasry

Professor of Media Studies, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar

Dr. Khadijah Elshayyal

Associate Fellow, Alwaleed Centre, University of Edinburgh

Sadek Hamid

Research Fellow, University of Wales Trinity Saint David

Sami Hamdi

Managing Director, International Interest

Dr. Kamal Hussain

PhD Islamic Studies, SOAS University of London

Dr. Shadi Hamid

Senior Fellow, Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution

Iyad Hilal

Islamic Scholar

Dr. Basit Iqbal

Assistant Professor of Anthropology, McMaster University, Canada

James Jones

Executive VP, Islamic Seminary of America and Professor Emeritus of World Religions and African Studies, Manhattanville College

Dr. Katrin Jomaa

Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Rhode Island

Raja Jureidini

Professor of Migration Ethics and Human Rights, Hamad bin Khalifa University, Qatar

Dr. Riham Khafagy

Assistant Professor at the College of Humanities and Social Science, Zayed University, UAE

Dr. Muhammad Khalifa

Senior Fellow

Dr. Salman al-Azami

Senior lecturer in Language, Media and Communication, Liverpool Hope University

Dr. Monzer Kahf

Professor of Islamic Finance & Economics, Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University, Turkey

Darryl Li

Assistant Professor of Anthropology, and Social Sciences, University of Chicago and Associate Member, University of Chicago Law School

Dr. Jonathan Laurence

Professor of Political Science and Director, Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy, Boston College

Dr. Adeel Malik

The Globe Fellow in the Economies of Muslim Societies and Associate Professor, University of Oxford

Hossam El Din Mohammed

Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, Karabuk University, Turkey

Michael Munnik

Senior Lecturer in Social Science Theories and Methods, Director of Learning and Teaching, Cardiff University

Dr. Nadia Mostafa

Emeritus Professor of International Relations, Cairo University, Egypt

Dr. Medhat Maher

Director of Al-Hadara Center of Studies and Research, Egypt

Thomas Parker

Ummatics Contributing Writer

Dr. Walaa Quisay

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Edinburgh

Dr. Muneeza Rizvi

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley

Dr. Heba Raouf-Ezzat

Assistant Professor of Political Science, Institute of Alliance of Civilizations, Ibn Haldun University, Turkey

Syaza Shukri

Assistant Professor of Political Science, International Islamic University Malaysia

Saul Takahashi

Professor of Human Rights and Peace Studies, Osaka Jogakuin University, Japan

SherAli Tareen

Associate Professor and Department Chair of Religious Studies, Franklin and Marshall College

Dr. Alexander Thurston

Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Cincinnati

Dr Fadi Zatari

Assistant Professor of Political Science, Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University, Turkey

Meetup Guests

Dr. Mohammad Affan

Director, Al Sharq Academia

Dr. Haitham al Haddad

Chair of the Fatwa Committee, The Islamic Council of Europe, UK

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