Dr. Su’ad Abdul Khabeer is a scholar-artist-activist originally from Brooklyn, NY. She is curator of Umi’s Archive, a multimedia project documenting Black and Muslim histories and co-founder of Sapelo Square, a digital media and education collective on Black Muslims in the US. Trained as an anthropologist, Su’ad’s first book, Muslim Cool: Race, Religion and Hip Hop in the United States, is field-defining study on Islam and hip hop that examines how intersecting ideas of Muslimness and Blackness challenge and reproduce the meanings of race in the United States. She is an associate professor of American Culture and Arab and Muslim American Studies at the University of Michigan.

Dr. Tariq al-Jamil is an expert on medieval Islamic social history and law, with a particular focus on Shi’ism. He has conducted research on Sunni-Shi’i relations and can address issues related to the academic study of Islam and the social history of Iraq, Iran, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. His published works and research interests include: Islam and inter-communal violence, pre-modern religious identity, religious dissimulation, the transmission of knowledge in Islam, and women in Islamic jurisprudence. al-Jamil received his B.A. from Oberlin College, M.T.S. from Harvard University, and M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University.

Dr. Sa’ed Atshan is the 2024–25 Randolph Fellow in Peace, Conflict and the Middle East at Vassar College andChair of the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies and Associate Professor of Anthropology at Swarthmore College. He is the author of Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique (Stanford University Press, 2020), coauthor of The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, Palestinians (Duke University Press, 2020), and co-editor of Reel Gender: Palestinian and Israeli Cinema (Bloosmbury, 2022).

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