Nancy Gallagher is a professor emerita of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She received two MA degrees, in African studies and History, and the PhD in modern Middle Eastern History, from UCLA. She is past president of the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies and past co-editor of the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies. From 2011 to 2013 she served as the Director of the University of California Education Abroad Program Study Center for the Middle East and taught at the American University in Cairo. She is currently co-chair of the Afghan Girls Schools Committee, which supports two schools outside Peshawar, Pakistan. Her books include Quakers in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, American University in Cairo Press, 2007; Femmes, Cultures, et Sociétés au Maghreb, coedited with Rahma Bourqia and Mounira Charrad (Casablanca: Afrique Orient, 1996); Approaches to the History of the Middle East: Interviews with Leading Historians (Reading: Ithaca Press, 1994; paperback edition, 1996); Egypt's Other Wars: Epidemics and the Politics of Public Health, (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1990, pp. xiii + 234; paperback edition, American University in Cairo Press, 1993.); Medicine and Power in Tunisia, 1780-1900 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983), pp. xii + 145. Paperback edition, 2002. 

 

Hassan Almohammed Born in Syria 1975. I did my studies in French Literature at Aleppo University. I got a Master Degree from Aleppo University in French Studies and was the first in my class. Then I become a lecturer at Department of French in 2000. - MA, Speciality:  Theories and Practices and language and Art at EHESS( School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences) in Paris. My these was focusing  on Photomontage in XX century.  -  PhD from Université Blaise Pascal ( France) in 2009. My dissertation was about French poets and the premonition of death (1945-1992) - Participated in international colloquiums ( Université Balise Pascal ( France), Université d’Angers (France), Université de Manouba, Tunisia) and published several articles in different reviews. . - After feeding my country in 2012 I applied for  political asylum in France where I became a refugee. I worked as French teacher in France and translator. I became officially journalist after working as an investigation journalist with French directors of documentary films. (I did translate the only video used as proof of using chemical weapon by Syrian regime in 2013 for the Newspaper Le Monde. I did other translations for different French Radio and TV.) - Professor in residence at Wesleyan University (2016-2017) where I taught a course on Photology and the Syrian Uprising. I also organized the first colloquium: Internally Displaced Persons, Borders, and Refugee Camps: One-Day Conference in 21st-Century Interdisciplinary Studies. - Currently I am teaching at UCSB as a visiting scholar until June 30, 2018. - I am also working on several projects (books and films) 

 

Kathleen M. Moore is Professor and Chair of the Religious Studies department at the University of California Santa Barbara. She is also the interim Director of UCSB’s Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion and Public Life. Moore teaches courses on religious liberty, Islam in America, law and religion, global religion, and Muslim diasporas and the law. She is currently writing a book based on research funded by the Luce Foundation entitled Shari’a Revoiced: California Muslims Speak About Islamic Law.  She frequently serves as an expert witness in litigation regarding religious expression and workplace discrimination. Her publications appear in The Oxford Handbook of American Islam, The 

Cambridge Companion to American Islam, The Routledge Handbook of Islam in the West, and the Journal of the American Academy of Religion. Her books include The Unfamiliar Abode: Islamic Law in the United States and Britain (Oxford University Press, 2010); Muslim Women in America: Challenges facing Islamic Identity Today (Oxford University Press, 2011); and Al-Mughtaribun: American Law and the Transformation of Muslim Life in America (SUNY Press, 1995). She has been awarded grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, and the U.S. Department of State.  

For five years, Kathleen was the co-Director of the State Department-funded Study of the United States Summer Institute, hosted at UCSB, on American Religion: Pluralism and Public Presence. This Institute brought 18 religious scholars from around the world to Santa Barbara for six weeks each summer to study models of religious pluralism and coexistence