Professor of History, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
As an undergraduate student at the Faculty of Political Science at Ankara, I was fascinated by Modern Turkish political history (19th and 20th centuries), and inclined towards the period of Sultan Abdulhamid II (1876-1909)- a highly controversial but crucial period in modern Turkish (and Middle Eastern) historiography. During my M.A. studies in the same faculty, I continued to pursue my interest i...
Professor of History at the University of Arizona, Tucson
Clancy-Smith spent 2009-2010 at the Institute for Advanced Study, School of Social Science, in Princeton.She contributed a pamphlet and book chapter to the AHA series in women, gender, and comparative history: Exemplary Women and Sacred Journeys: Women and Gender in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam from Late Antiquity to the Eve of Modernity (American Historical Association/University of Illinois...
Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
Professor Adeed Dawisha specializes in Iraq's transition to democracy since the downfall of Saddam Hussein's government in 2003.
Professor of Anthropology, American University in Cairo
During three decades of work on North Africa and the Middle East-–as university professor, human rights researcher, consultant for international organizations, and independent academic researcher–-I have specialized in anthropological theory (exploring the implications of encounters between people from different communities and the complexities of the notion of "culture"), human rights...
Journalist, Al-Hayat Newspaper, Beirut Regional Office
ExpertiseRadical Muslims in Lebanon (both the Palestinian refugee camps and the north) and in Jordan; American detention camps in Iraq; Tehran, Iran
Haleh Esfandiari, the Director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, has had a rich and varied career. In her native Iran, she was a journalist, served as deputy secretary general of the Women's Organization of Iran, and was the deputy director of a cultural foundation where she was responsible for the activities of several museums and art an...
As an undergraduate student at the Faculty of Political Science at Ankara, I was fascinated by Modern Turkish political history (19th and 20th centuries), and inclined towards the period of Sultan Abdulhamid II (1876-1909)- a highly controversial but crucial period in modern Turkish (and Middle Eastern) historiography. During my M.A. studies in the same faculty, I continued to pursue my interest i...
Clancy-Smith spent 2009-2010 at the Institute for Advanced Study, School of Social Science, in Princeton.She contributed a pamphlet and book chapter to the AHA series in women, gender, and comparative history: Exemplary Women and Sacred Journeys: Women and Gender in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam from Late Antiquity to the Eve of Modernity (American Historical Association/University of Illinois...
Professor Adeed Dawisha specializes in Iraq's transition to democracy since the downfall of Saddam Hussein's government in 2003.
During three decades of work on North Africa and the Middle East-–as university professor, human rights researcher, consultant for international organizations, and independent academic researcher–-I have specialized in anthropological theory (exploring the implications of encounters between people from different communities and the complexities of the notion of "culture"), human rights...
Haleh Esfandiari, the Director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, has had a rich and varied career. In her native Iran, she was a journalist, served as deputy secretary general of the Women's Organization of Iran, and was the deputy director of a cultural foundation where she was responsible for the activities of several museums and art an...