Evelyn Shakir is a fiction writer, personal essayist, and pioneering scholar of Arab American literature. The daughter of Lebanese immigrants to the United States, she is author of Bint Arab: Arab and Arab American Women in the United States (Praeger; 1997), among other titles. As a Senior Fulbright scholar, she has taught American literature to university students in both Lebanon and Syria; under the auspices of Bentley College (where she is professor emerita), she has taught similar courses in the kingdom of Bahrain. She holds degrees from Wellesley College, Harvard University, and Boston University. Shakir is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Shakir

https://atc4.bentley.edu/sets/OldSETs/200501/0501118581.htm

Nawal Nasrallah holds a Masters of Arts in English and Comparative Literature and taught English and American Literature at Baghdad and Mosul universities from 1977 through 1990. She has lectured on Mesopotamian and medieval Baghdadi cuisine, as well as the cooking of modern Iraq. She has produced a television program on Mesopotamian baking and has won cooking awards in Bloomington, Indiana and nationally under the aegis of Gourmet Magazine. Delights from the Garden of Eden (2003; Author House) was her first cookbook.

https://www.iraqicookbook.com/home

Rabab Abdulhadi is associate professor of ethnic studies/race and resistance studies and senior scholar of the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Initiative at San Francisco State University. She is the coauthor of Mobilizing Democracy: Changing U.S. Policy in the Middle East, over 70 bilingual newspaper and journal articles, and co-editor (with Evelyn Alsultany and Nadine Naber) of Arab and Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence and Belonging. She is a recipient of the New Century Scholarship and serves on the International Advisory Board of the World Congress of Middle East studies (WOCMES) and a Policy Advisor to the Palestinian think Tank, AL-Shabaka. As Director of the Center for Arab American Studies at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, she has initiated collaborative projects including “Mapping Arab Diasporas”, “Connecting Jerusalem and Dearborn: Developing Arab American and American Studies Curriculum in the US and the Arab World”, and “The Spirit of Bandung: Postcolonial Histories, Transnational Solidarities and 3rd World Cultures of Resistance”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabab_Abdulhadi

https://faculty.sfsu.edu/~ria55/

Evelyn Alsultany is an Associate Professor in the Program in American Culture at the University of Michigan, where she is the co-director of Arab American Studies. She is the author of Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race and Representation after 9/11 (New York University Press, forthcoming 2012). She is co-editor (with Rabab Abdulhadi and Nadine Naber) of Arab and Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, and Belonging (Syracuse University Press, 2011) and (with Ella Shohat) of Between the Middle East and the Americas: The Cultural Politics of Diaspora (University of Michigan Press, forthcoming 2012). She is also guest curator of the Arab American National Museum’s online exhibit, Reclaiming Identity: Dismantling Arab Stereotypes.

https://evelynalsultany.com

https://dornsife.usc.edu/profile/evelyn-alsultany/

Nadine Naber is an Associate Professor in Arab American Studies, the Program in American Culture and the Department of Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is author of Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics and Activism (NYU Press). She is co-author of Race and Arab Americans (Syracuse University Press). Her research and teaching contribute to the field, Arab American Studies, by incorporating the methods and theories of Women of Color, Transnational, and Post-Colonial Feminist Studies. She has developed feminist analyses of the changing realities of race, gender, and religion among Arab Americans before and after September 11th. Nadine Naber is co-founder of the Arab Women’s Solidarity Association, North America (cyber AWSA) and Arab Movement of Women Arising for Justice (AMWAJ) and actively engaged in INCITE! Women of Color against Violence.

https://glas.uic.edu/profiles/naber-nadine/

Dr. Alixa Naff (1919-2013), the author of Becoming American: The Early Arab Immigrant Experience (Southern Illinois University Press, 1985), is viewed by many as “The Mother of Arab American Studies.” After completing fieldwork in Arab communities across the U.S. and Canada and receiving a master’s and Ph.D., Naff donated the materials she collected during her research to the Smithsonian. The Faris and Yamna Naff Arab American Collection, named in honor of Naff’s parents and now housed at the National Museum of American History, includes hundreds of artifacts, oral history interviews, photographs, and other documents. Naff worked tirelessly as a volunteer archivist on the collection to help make it available to future researchers.

https://lebanesestudies.ncsu.edu/explore/awards/alixa-naff-prize/naff/ 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alixa_Naff

Deborah Al-Najjar is a PhD candidate in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Her fiction has been published in the Kenyon Review, the Michigan Quarterly Review, and the Indiana Review.Most Americans know very little about the everyday lives of Iraqis, despite ongoing media coverage of the occupation of Iraq and its aftermath.

https://www.deborahalnajjar.com/dr-al-najjar.html

Germine H. Awad, PhD, is an associate professor of psychology in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research can be broadly categorized in the area of prejudice and discrimination as well as ethnic/racial identity and acculturation. Dr. Awad is the co-chair of the APA Committee on Ethnic Minority Affairs (CEMA) working group on Arab/Middle Eastern Americans and has served on several journal editorial boards.

https://lsa.umich.edu/psych/people/faculty/gawad.html

Sherine Hafez is Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of California, Riverside. She is author of An Islam of Her Own: Reconsidering Religion and Secularism in Women’s Islamic Movements and editor (with Susan Slyomovics) of Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa: Into the New Millennium.

https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/sherineh

Zainab Saleh is interested in questions of empire and colonialism, belonging and subjectivity, migration and diaspora, and violence and knowledge production. In her scholarship, she tries to examine how formations of subjectivity, understandings of temporality, and the construction of a sense of home in a diasporic context have been situated in structures of power and in shifting terrains of class, political, gender, and religious sensibilities. This interest in power and imperial entanglements, which marked a departure from the concept of culture in anthropological theories, is a window to critique dominant Orientalist conceptualizations about Iraq and culturalist interpretations of national events, which focused on the persistence of primordial affiliations. Her scholarship and training have been informed by the fields of anthropology, Middle East studies, diaspora studies, postcolonial studies, and gender studies.

Suad Joseph is Distinguished Research Professor of Anthropology and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Davis. She is the editor of Arab Family Studies: Critical Reviews.

Amira Jarmakani is professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at San Diego State University and author of both An Imperialist Love Story: Desert Romances and the War on Terror and Imagining Arab Womanhood: The Cultural Mythology of Veils, Harems, and Belly Dancers in the U.S.

Rhoda Kanaaneh has taught anthropology and gender and sexuality studies at Columbia University, American University, and New York University. She is the editor of Displaced at Home: Ethnicity and Gender Among Palestinians in Israel and author of Surrounded: Palestinian Soldiers in the Israeli Military and Birthing the Nation: Strategies of Palestinian Women in Israel.