AFRICA & THE MIDDLE EASTParticipants
Amr Abdulrahman
PhD researcher at Essex University
United Kingdom
Paul Amar
Associate Professor, Global & International Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara
Juan Campo
Associate Professor, Religious Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara
Magda Campo
Continuing Lecturer in Religious Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara
Osama El Mahdy
Editor, Al-Masry Al-Youm
Cairo, Egypt
Ashraf El Sherif
Adjunct Professor, Political Science
American University in Cairo
Samah Faried
Lecturer, Sociology Department
Ain Shams University, Cairo
Nancy Gallagher
Professor, Middle East History
University of California, Santa Barbara
Barbara Ibrahim
Founding Director, John D. Gerhart Center for Philanthropy and Civic Engagement
Cairo, Egypt
Ishak Ibrahim
Researcher, Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights
Saad Eddin Ibrahim
Founder, Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies
Cairo, Egypt
Mark Juergensmeyer
Director, Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara
Amr Abdulrahman
Political Organizer, Egyptian National Congress
Paul Amar
Associate Professor, Global & International Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara
Juan Campo
Associate Professor, Religious Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara
Magda Campo
Continuing Lecturer in Religious Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara
Fatma Emam
Nazra for Feminist Studies
Cairo, Egypt
Nancy Gallagher
Professor, Middle East History
University of California, Santa Barbara
Mark Juergensmeyer
Director, Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara
Ann Lesch
Dean, American University in Cairo
Hind Ahmed Zaki
Egyptian Political Organizer
University of Washington
Panelists
Mohammed Bamyeh
Professor, Department of Sociology
University of Pittsburgh
Editor, International Sociology Review of Books (ISRB)
Sarah Blackmun-Eskow
President, The Pangaea Network
Doctoral Candidate, Fielding Graduate University
Mae Elise Cannon
Senior Director of Advocacy & Outreach - Middle East
World Vision U.S.
Robert Dowd
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Director, Ford Family Program
Kellogg Institute for International Studies
University of Notre Dame
Waleed El Ansary
Professor, Helal, Hisham and Laila Edris El-Swedey University Chair in Islamic Studies
Xavier University, Cincinnati
Hilal Elver
Research Professor, Global & International Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara
Steve Eskow
Chair, The Pangaea Network
Director, External Affairs, Ghana Telecom University College
Richard Falk
Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University Visiting Distinguished Professor, Global & International Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara
Laura Grillo
Professor, History of Religions
Pacifica Graduate Institute
Santa Barbara, California
Rosalind I. J. Hackett
Professor, Department of Religious Studies
University of Tennessee
Jeffrey Haynes
Director, Centre for the Study of Religion, Conflict and Cooperation
London Metropolitan University
William R. Headley
Dean, Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies
University of San Diego
Dwight Hopkins
Founder, International Association of Black Religions and Spiritualities Professor, Divinity School, University of Chicago
Frederick (Fritz) J. Lampe
Adjunct Faculty, Department of Anthropology
Northern Arizona University
Jacob Olupona
Professor, African and African American Studies
Harvard University, Cambridge
Thomas Tighe
CEO, Direct Relief International
Santa Barbara, California
Karel Zelenka
Former Director, Catholic Relief Services, Haiti
Director, Catholic Relief Services, South Africa
Moderators
Paul Amar
Associate Professor, Global & International Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara
Juan Campo
Associate Professor, Religious Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara
Assistant Professor
Global & International Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara
Kathleen Moore
Professor, Religious Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara
