Visiting Scholars-in-Residence
Karen Armstrong
Freelance Writer and Broadcaster, London. Formerly Professor of Modern Literature, London University. Her publications include: A History of God, The 4000 Year Quest in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths, In the Beginning: A New Interpretation of Genesis, Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet, and Through the Narrow Gate.
Mahmoud Ayoub
Professor of Islamic Studies, Department of Religion, Temple University and Adjunct Professor at the Duncan Black MacDonald Center, Hartford Seminary. His publications include Redemptive Suffering in Islam and The Qur'an and Its Interpreters, Vol. I and II.
John Donohue, SJ
Director of the Center for the Study of the Modern Arab World and Professor of History and Translations, St. Joseph's University, Beirut, Lebanon. His publications include Islam in Transition, co-edited with John L. Esposito.
Eliseo Mercado
Father Mercado holds a rank of Professor V at Notre Dame University (Cotabato City). He also chairs the Mindanao Leaders Coalition (Kusog Mindanaw) that joins all sectors in Mindanao to advocate for Peace and Development including the campaign for greater autonomy in Mindanao that includes a campaign for Federalism. His publications include: Understanding Modern Trends in Islam, Mission and Dialogue, Southern Philippines Questions, Praymer Pangkalusugan, and Evangelizing the Poor in the Philippines.
Nasrin Hakami
Fellow, Center for Near Eastern Studies, University of California/Los Angeles. Formerly Head of Research Group of Japanese Studies; Executive President, Institute for Cultural Studies and Research (Tehran); Director, Asian Cultural Documentation Center for UNESCO (Tehran). Her publications include: The Japanese Strategy of Power, Pelerinage de l'Emam Reza: A Socioeconomic Study, and various translations into Persian including The Meiji, Restoration, Japanese Society and Le Phenomen Coranic.
M. Kamal Hassan
First holder of the Malaysia Chair of Islam in Southeast Asia, Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. Deputy Rector (Academic), International Islamic University, Malaysia. Formerly Dean, Kulliyah (Faculty) of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences & Shaikh al-Kulliyah, Centre for Fundamental Knowledge, International Islamic University, Malaysia. His books include Pendidikan dan Pembangunan: Satu Perspektif Bersepadu, The Sufi Concept of 'Ubudiyyah and Muslim Intellectual Responses to "New Order" Modernization in Indonesia.
Vladimir Koshelev
Professor and Department Head, Department of Modern and Contemporary History, Belarussian State University, Belarus. His publications include: World History from Ancient Time to XVIIIth Century, Modern World History, Egypt: Lessons of History, and Egypt before El Alamein. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Goldobin A.M. Egyptian National Liberation Movement, 1918-1936, and Editor-in Chief of Allbelarusian Conference of Historians: Historical Science and Education in Ripublic of Belarus (new conceptions and approaches).
Roy Mottahedeh
Gurney Professor of History, Harvard University; Chairman, Committee on Islamic Studies, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University. His publications include: The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran, and Loyalty and Leadership in an Early Islamic Society.
Ahmad Moussalli
Professor of Political Science, American University of Beirut, Lebanon. Recipient of the 'Abdul Hamid Shuman Prize for Young Arab Scholars (1993). His publications include: Radical Islamic Fundamentalism: The Ideological and Political Discourse of Sayyid Qutb, Islamic Fundamentalism: Myths and Realities, Moderate and Radical Islamic Fundamentalism: The Quest for Modernity, Legitimacy and the Islamic State and Historical Dictionary of Islamic Fundamentalist Movements in the Arab World, Iran and Turkey.
Mohamed Fathi Osman
Vice-President, American Association of Muslim Social Scientists. Formerly Resident Scholar, Islamic Center of Southern California; and Director, Research Center, Imam Muhammad ibn Saud University, Saudi Arabia. His publications include Islamic Legal Thinking between the Permanent Divine Sources and the Changing Juristic Contributions (in Arabic), Islamic Thought and Human Change (in Arabic), The Muslim World: Issues and Challenges, and Jihad: A Legitimate Struggle for Human Rights.
Samir Khalil Samir, SJ
Founder of the Center for Documentation and Research on Arab Christianity and Muslim-Christian Understanding (CEDRAC), St. Joseph's University (Beirut). In addition, Father Samir has taught Christian-Muslim relations at numerous universities throughout the Arab world, Europe, Japan, and the United States. He has published 19 volumes and over 400 articles in scientific periodicals.
Alamgir M. Serajuddin
Professor of History, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh, and former Vice-Chancellor, University of Chittagong. Recent research is focused on Shari'a Law and Society in the Indian Subcontinent.
Jack G. Shaheen
Professor of Mass Communications Emeritus at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville; CBS News Consultant on Middle East Affairs. His publications include: Nuclear War Films (ed.), The TV Arab and other essays focusing on the impact of stereotypical portraits in college textbooks, academic journals and periodicals, and the media.
Fatma al-Sayegh
Professor of History, United Arab Emirates University and Fulbright Scholar. Recipient of the Shaikh Rashid bin Sa'ed Award for Educational and Scientific Achievements (1991). Her publications include: The United Arab Emirates and the British Air Route to the East, "Women of the United Arab Emirates: Historical Study of Women's Status in the Twentieth Century," and "The Role of Medical Care in Christian Missions to the United Arab Emirates."
Saloua Zerhouni
Ph.D. candidate at the University Hassan II in Casablanca, Morocco. Her doctoral disertation is on citizenship and political participation in Morocco, taking as a case study the parliamentary elite of the 1997-2000 legislature.