Muslims’ engagement with government and politics is becoming
more prominent in the United States and abroad on issues ranging from
immigration and terrorism to charities and civil rights. This guide lists
research centers, organizations and scholars with expertise on the growing role
of Muslims’ interactions with government and politics.
Research Centers
ACADEMIC
• The Carolina-Duke-Emory Institute for the Study of Islam is
a joint project of three southeastern universities. Its principal focus is on
Islam overseas. Contact cdeisi@unc.edu.
• The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at
Georgetown University In Washington, D.C., describes itself as the only
academic center in the U.S. that focuses only on the Arab world, from Morocco
to the Persian Gulf. Michael Hudson
is its director. Contact 202-687-5793.
• The Center for Afghanistan Studies at the
University of Nebraska in Omaha is a center of research on the Afghan region,
peoples and cultures, including the country’s politics. Thomas Gouttierre
is its director. Contact 402-554-2376.
• The Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
at New York University in New York City focuses on the study of the Middle East,
especially on its economies, cultures and politics.
• Harvard University’s Islam in the West Program is a project of the university’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies. It focuses
on the relationship between Islam and democracy in North America. Among the
goals is to compare the attitudes of Muslims in Europe and Muslims in America.
It conducts seminars,
student workshops and surveys of Muslims and produces publications. Contact Jocelyne
Cesari, chair of the program, 617-495-4055, jcesari@fas.harvard.edu.
• The Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies in Oxford, England,
promotes the independent study of the Islamic world and conducts research,
lectures, courses and leadership programs. It is currently conducting a string
of seminars
on democratization in the Islamic world. Contact +44 (0)1865 278 730, Islamic.studies@oxcis.ac.uk.
• The King Fahd Center for Middle East & Islamic Studies at
the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville promotes the study of the Middle
East and North Africa. It sponsors lectures and events on the political
situation in different parts of the Muslim world. Tom Paradise is interim
director. Contact 479-575-4157.
• The Duncan Black Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and
Christian-Muslim Relations
promotes teaching, research and publishing on global Islam and manages the
Islamic studies program at Hartford Seminary in Hartford, Conn. Ibrahim
Abu-Rabi
is co-director. Contact 860-509-9530, aburabi@hartsem.edu.
THINK TANKS
• The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace has a
Carnegie Middle East Program.
Marina Ottaway
and Paul Salem
are its directors. Contact 202-939-2263, mottaway@ceip.org
and psalem@carnegie-mec.org.
• The Center on Islam, Democracy and the Future of the Muslim
World
is a program of the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C. It hosts seminars and
lectures and conducts research on the role of Islam in the politics and
government of the Islamic world. Hillel Fradkin
is its director and a senior fellow. Contact 202-974-2400.
• The Center for Strategic and International Studies seeks to influence and
develop international policy. It has a Middle East Program, http://www.csis.org/mideast/ which focuses
on U.S. foreign policy in the region. Its Turkey Project focuses on
U.S. policy and Turkish politics. The South Asia Program focuses on
the politics and strategic developments in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri
Lanka, Nepal and Afghanistan. Contact H. Andrew Schwartz, vice president of
external relations, 202-775-3242, aschwartz@csis.org.
• The Council on Foreign Relations is a nonpartisan think tank
on American foreign policy based in New York City and Washington, D.C. Carla
Hills
and Robert Rubin
are co-directors. Its Web site is searchable by region and country. Contact via
the communications department, 212-434-9888.
• The Gallup Center for Muslim Studies is a research center that examines the views of the world’s Muslim population.
Its current reports include “Islam and Democracy” and “Moderate vs. Extremist Views in the Muslim World.”
Dalia Mogahed is its director. Contact via Sarah Van Allen, 202-715-3030 or
877-242-5587.
• The Institute for Social Policy and Understanding is an independent nonprofit
think tank committed to research and analysis of U.S. domestic and foreign
policies, with an emphasis on issues related to the Muslim community in the
United States. Its Center for the Study of American Muslims promotes
the scholarly study of the attitudes of American Muslims on many things,
including education and politics. Its site includes a list of participating
scholars
and articles. To find scholarly experts on specific topics, contact ISPU’s director of
research, Farid Senzai, fsenzai@ispu.org.
• The Minaret of Freedom Institute, based in Bethesda, Md., conducts independent scholarly research into issues
involving Islam in the U.S. and policy issues affecting Muslim countries. The
institute’s emphasis is on the Islam, freedom and free markets, and the
political and economic implications of Islamic law. Contact Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad,
301-907-0947, mfi@minaret.org.
• The National Democracy Institute for International Affairs is a nonprofit organization
that seeks to support democracies throughout the world. Its Web site is
searchable by some countries.
Kenneth Wollack
is president. Contact 202-728-5520.
• The Saban Center for Middle East Policy
is based at the Brookings Institution,
a nonprofit organization that focuses on U.S. foreign policy through funding
independent research, publishing and events. It is based in Washington, D.C.
Contact director Martin S. Indyk via the office of communications,
202-797-6105, communications@brookings.edu.
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National and international sources
GENERAL
• Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im
is a law professor at Emory University in Atlanta, where he teaches
international law and comparative constitutional law, international
institutions and Islamic law. His research includes human rights in
cross-cultural perspectives, constitutionalism in Islamic and African
countries, Islam and politics. Contact 404-727-1198, abduh46@law.emory.edu.
• Mohammed Ayoob
is a professor of international relations at Michigan State University in East
Lansing. He is the author of The
Many Faces of Political Islam: Religion and Politics in the Muslim World (2007).
Contact 517-353-3538, ayoob@msu.edu.
• Juan E. Campo is an associate professor of religious studies at University of California at Santa
Barbara. He has served as co-director of the UCSB Center for Middle East
Studies. He specializes in the comparative study of Islam, particularly in the
Middle East and South Asia, and teaches courses on religion, politics and
society in the Persian Gulf region. Contact 805-893-7136, jcampo@religion.ucsb.edu.
• Mona Eltahawy is an award-winning New York-based journalist and commentator and an international lecturer on Arab and Muslim issues. Her essays appear regularly in both the Arab and U.S. media. Contact info@monaeltahawy.com.
• John L. Esposito
is founding director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for
Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University, where he teaches
religion, Islamic studies and international affairs. He is an expert on Islam
and its history, modernizing trends and forces, radicalism, terrorism,
democracy, foreign policy and politics. Contact 202-687-8375, jle2@georgetown.edu.
• Fawaz A. Gerges is a professor of international affairs and Middle Eastern studies at Sarah
Lawrence College in Bronxville, N.Y. Gerges is a senior analyst and regular
commentator for ABC News and a commentator for NPR’s Morning Edition. Areas
of expertise include Islam and the political process, Islamist and jihadist
movements, Arab politics, American foreign policy in the Middle East, the
modern history of the Middle East, history of conflict, diplomacy and foreign
policy. He did several years of field research on relations between the
Islamists, jihadis and the West, particularly the United States, in several
Middle Eastern countries. Contact 914-395-2299, fgerges@slc.edu,
or reach him through Judith Schwartzstein in the Sarah Lawrence media
department, 914-395-2219, judiths@sarahlawrence.edu.
• Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad
is professor of Islam and Christian-Muslim relations at the Prince Alwaleed bin
Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University in
Washington, D.C. Her scholarly interests include Muslims in the West, Islamic
revolutionary movements, 20th-century Islam and the intellectual, social and
political history of the Arab world. Contact 202-687-2575, haddady@georgetown.edu.
• Sohail Hashmi
is an associate professor of international relations at Mount Holyoke College
in South Hadley, Mass. He is an expert on Islam, pluralism, Islamic political
thought and jihad. He posits that Islam lacks a tradition of political thought.
Contact 413-538-2666, shashmi@mtholyoke.edu.
• Robert William Hefner is an anthropology professor and associate director of the Institute on
Culture, Religion and World Affairs at Boston University, where he directs the
program on Islam and civil society. His specialty is religion and politics in
Southeast Asia and the Muslim world, with a particular focus on Islam,
democratization and violence. He directed a multicountry Pew project called
“Civil Democratic Islam,” on prospects and policies for civic pluralism and
democracy in the Muslim world. Contact 617-558-2786, rhefner@bu.edu.
• Michael Hudson
is director of the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown
University in Washington, D.C. Among his areas of expertise is transnational
Islamist movements. Contact 202-687-5648, hudsonm@georgetown.edu.
• Muqtedar Khan
is an associate professor in the political science department at the University
of Delaware in Newark. His specialties include international relations,
political philosophy and Islamic political thought. He is the author of Jihad
for Jerusalem: Identity and Strategy in International Relations (2004) and
editor of Islamic Democratic Discourse: Theory,
Debates and Philosophical Perspectives (2006) and Debating
Moderate Islam: The Geopolitics of Islam and the West (2007). Contact 302-831-1939,
mkhan@udel.edu.
• Peter P. Mandaville
is an associate professor of government and politics and co-directs the Center
for Global Studies at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. His expertise is
in international politics and Islam. His current research is on the role of
Muslim organizations and leadership in Europe and North America; madrassas and
education in the Muslim world; and social/political development in the Muslim
world. Contact 703-993-1054, pmandavi@gmu.edu.
• Andrew March
is an assistant professor of political science at Yale University in New Haven,
Conn. He is at work on a book about Islam and citizenship in liberal
democracies and is an expert on Islam and democracy. Contact 203-432-4178, Andrew.march@yale.edu.
• James Piscatori is a professor and deputy director of the
Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies at the Australian National University in
Canberra, Australia. He is formerly a senior scholar at the Oxford Centre for
Islamic Studies in Oxford, England. He is a leading scholar in Islamic communities in the West.
Contact via Jane O’Dwyer, office of communications, 02 6125 5001 / 0416 249 231, or contact the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies
at 61 2 6125 4982.
• Timothy Samuel Shah
is an adjunct senior fellow for religion and foreign policy at the Council on
Foreign Relations. He is an expert on religion and U.S. foreign policy,
religion and democracy, global democratization, Third World religion and
politics, especially in South Asia. He is based in Washington, D.C. Contact
240-912-5697, tshah@cfr.org.
EXTREMISM / TERRORISM
• Eric Brown
is a research fellow at the Center on Islam, Democracy and the Future of the
Muslim World, where he is co-director of the Net Assessment of Radical Islam
project. Contact 202-974-2400.
• Khaled Abou El Fadl
is an internationally recognized law professor and a fellow in Islamic law at
the University of California, Los Angeles. His courses include human rights and
terrorism. Contact 310-825-4841, abouelfa@law.ucla.edu.
• Tawfik Hamid
describes himself as a former member of an Islamic extremist movement Jamma'a Islameia
who now speaks out for political and religious reform in the Muslim world.
Contact via publicist Maria Sliwa, 973-272-2861, msliwa@msliwa.com.
• David Harris is a senior fellow for terrorism and national
security at the Canadian Coalition for Democracies in Toronto,
Canada, and a former chief of strategic planning for the Canadian Security
Intelligence Service. He is an expert on terrorism networks in North America.
Contact 416-963-8998.
• Bruce Hoffman is a professor in the security studies program at Georgetown University in Washington,
D.C. He teaches graduate courses in terrorism and counterterrorism and
insurgency and counterinsurgency, as well as other international security
subjects. Contact 202-687-7847, brh6@georgetown.edu.
• Gilles Kepel heads the postgraduate program on the Arab and
Muslim worlds at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris, France. He is the
author of The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West (2004) and Jihad:
The Trial of Political Islam. Contact gilles.kepel@sciences-po.fr.
• Sandra Mackey is a freelance journalist who has written
widely on Islamic extremism, especially in Iraq and Lebanon. She is the author
several books on Islam and politics in the Middle East including Mirror of
the Arab World: Lebanon in Conflict (2008). She lives in Atlanta, Ga.
Contact via Norton publicity, 212-869-0856, publicity@www.norton.com.
• Michael Radu
is co-chairman of the Center on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism and Homeland
Security
at the Foreign Policy Research Institute
in Philadelphia. He has studied terrorist groups around the world and is an
expert on terrorism and extremism in Turkey. Contact 215-732-3774.
• Gideon Rose
is managing editor of Foreign Affairs magazine and an expert on
terrorism, among other issues, in the Middle East and South Asia. He is based
in New York City. Contact 212-434-9629, grose@cfr.org.
• Steven Simon
is a senior fellow in Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign Relations
and an expert on Islamic terrorism. He is the co-author of The Age of Sacred
Terror and The Next Attack: The Failure of the
War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting It Right. He is based in
New York City. Contact 202-518-3437, ssimon@cfr.org.
U.S. FOREIGN POLICY
• As'ad AbuKhalil is a
professor of political science at California State University,
Stanislaus in Turlock, Calif. He is a frequent critic of U.S. foreign
policy, especially in the Middle East. He writes the blog Angry Arab. Contact 209-667-3536, aabukhalil@csustan.edu.
• Lawrence Mamiya is a professor of religion and Africana
studies at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., who is an expert on
African-American religion. He contributed an article, "African American
Muslim Leaders and the War in Iraq"
to the Feb. 24, 2008, issue of the journal Faith and International Affairs.
Contact 845-437-7490, mamiya@vassar.edu.
• Walter Russell Mead
is a senior fellow in U.S. foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations in its New York, NY, office.
He is an expert on religion and U.S. foreign policy. Contact 212-434-9548, wmead@cfr.org.
• Samer Shehata
is an assistant professor at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at
Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. He teaches courses on comparative and
Middle East politics, U.S. policy toward the Middle East, Islamist politics,
Egyptian politics and society, culture and politics in the Arab world. Contact
202-687-0350, sss32@georgetown.edu.
• Steven Simon
is a senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign
Relations in Washington, D.C. He is an expert on Middle East politics and the
relationship between religion and U.S. foreign policy, especially in the Middle
East. Contact 202-518-3437, ssimon@cfr.org.
• R. Drew Smith is a political scientist and
scholar-in-residence at the Leadership Center at Morehouse College in Atlanta,
Ga. He wrote an article on the responses of black religious denominations to
U.S. foreign policy in Iraq for the Feb. 22, 2008, issue of the journal Faith
and International Affairs Contact 404-681-2800, rsmith@morehouse.edu.
• Frederick Streets is a professor
in pastoral counseling at Yeshiva University in New York City. He contributed
an article
to the Feb. 22, 2008, issue of the journal Faith and International Affairs on
the special role African-Americans can have in the building of bridges with
Muslims overseas. Contact 212-960-5400.
INTERNET
• Gary Bunt is a senior
lecturer in Islamic studies at the University of Wales in Lampeter,
Wales. He is the author of Islam in the Digital Age. He writes a blog
and maintains a Web site at Virtually Islamic.
Contact g.bunt@lamp.ac.uk.
• Dale Eickelman is a professor of anthropology and human relations at Dartmouth College
in Hanover, N.H. He and Jon Anderson are the editors of New Media in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere, which, in part,
looks at how new media such as the internet influence politics in Muslim
countries. Contact 603-646-2621, Dale.F.Eickelman@dartmouth.edu.
• Orayb Najjar is an
associate professor of journalism at Northern Illinois University in
DeKalb, Ill. She argues that the three Middle East news stations – Al
Jazeera, Al Arabiyya, Al Manar – organize coverage around the question, "How
should the Middle East be organized?" and that, as a result, they
disseminate political news differently than other news stations. Contact 815-753-7017, onajjar@niu.edu.
• Naomi Sakr is a reader in
communication at the University of Westminster in London, England. She
is the author of Arab Media and Political Renewal: Community, Legitimacy and Public Life (2007), which looks at the impact of Arab
media on politics. Contact n.sakr01@wmin.ac.uk.
• Daniel Varisco is
chair of the anthropology department at Hofstra University in Hempstead,
N.Y. He is an expert on Islam and Islamic groups on the Internet and can
discuss how Muslims use the Internet to promote political ideas and
movements. Contact 516-463-5590, Daniel.M.Varisco@hofstra.edu.
AFRICA
• Nadim S. Houry is a researcher specializing in Lebanon and
Syria, the Middle East and North Africa for Human Rights Watch. He is based in Beirut. Contact via Urmi Shah, press
and information officer in the London
office, 44-20-7713-2788, shahu@hrw.org.
• Princeton Lyman
is an adjunct senior fellow in Africa policy studies at the Council on Foreign
Relations in Washington, D.C. He is a former ambassador to South Africa and
Nigeria and is an expert on democratization in sub-Sahara Africa. Contact
202-518-3456.
• Haim Malka
is a fellow and deputy director of the Middle East Program at the
Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. He is an
expert in Islam and politics, especially in the Middle East and North Africa.
Contact 202-775-3133.
• TURKEY
• Bulent Aliriza
is director and senior associate of the Turkey Project at the
Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. He is an
expert in Turkish politics and foreign relations. Contact 202-457-8724.
• Yesim Arat
is a professor of political science and international relations at Bogazici University
in Istanbul, Turkey. She is the author of Rethinking Islam and Liberal
Democracy: Islamist Women in Turkish Politics (2007). Contact 212-359-7578, araty@boun.edu.tr.
• Michael Radu
is co-chairman of the Center on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism and Homeland
Security
at the Foreign Policy Research Institute
in Philadelphia. He has studied terrorist groups around the world and is an
expert on terrorism and extremism in Turkey. Contact 215-732-3774.
MIDDLE EAST
• Jon B. Alterman
is director of the Middle East Program
at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. He is
an expert on Middle East politics and was an adviser to the Iraq Study Group.
Contact 202-775-3295.
• Mohamad Bazzi
is a fellow with the Council on Foreign Relations,
where he is working on a project about Hezbollah and the Shiite
community in Lebanon. He is the former Middle East bureau head for (New York) Newsday
and is based in New York City. Contact 212-434-9736, mbazzi@cfr.org.
• Nathan Brown
is a professor of political science and international affairs and director of
the Institute for Middle East Studies at George Washington University in
Washington, D.C. He is an expert on government and politics of the Middle East,
democratization and constitutionalism, and the rule of law in the Arab world.
Contact 202-994-2123, nbrown@gwu.edu.
• Steven Cook
is a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations
who is knowledgeable about politics in the Arab world, U.S.-Middle East policy,
civil-military relations in the Middle East and the Arab-Israeli conflict. He
is based in New York City. Contact 212-434-9644, scook@cfr.org.
• Michele Dunne
is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in
Washington, D.C., and editor of its Arab Reform Bulletin. She is an
expert on democratization and political reform in the Arab world. Contact
202-939-2264, mdunne@carnegieendowment.org.
• Noah Feldman
is an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a law
professor at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. He is an expert on Middle
East politics and Islamic constitutional law. Contact noah_feldman@harvard.edu.
• Amr Hamzawy is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington,
D.C. He is an Egyptian political scientist who is an expert on Middle East
politics and reform. His research interests include the changing dynamics of
political participation in the Arab world and the role of Islamist opposition
groups in Arab politics in Egypt and the Gulf countries. Contact 202-939-2290, ahamzawy@CarnegieEndowment.org.
• Nadim S. Houry is a researcher specializing in Lebanon and
Syria, the Middle East and North Africa for Human Rights Watch. In February
2008, he participated in the “Roundtable
on Reform in the Arab and Islamic World: Endless Stalemate? Lebanon’s Political Crisis and Its Aftermath” at the
Council of Foreign Relations. He is based in Beirut. Contact via Urmi Shah,
press and information officer in the London office, 44-20-7713-2788, shahu@hrw.org.
• Haim Malka
is a fellow and deputy director of the Middle East Program at the
Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. He is an
expert in Islam and politics, especially in the Middle East and North Africa.
Contact 202-775-3133.
• Suzanne Maloney is a senior fellow at the Saban Center for Middle
East Policy
at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. She is an expert on Iran and
the Gulf States and has written about religion and human rights in the region.
Contact 202-797-6105.
• Vali R. Nasr
is director of the Roundtable Series on Global Islamic Politics
at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he is also an adjunct senior fellow
for Middle Eastern Studies. He is an expert on Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, political
Islam and democratization in the Muslim world. He is also the author of three
books on Islam in the Middle East, including Islamic Leviathan: Islam and
the Making of State Power. He is a professor of Middle East and South Asia
politics at Tufts University in Boston. Read an October 2004 interview
with Nasr conducted by Bill Moyers for the PBS television series Now.
Contact 619-339-9192, vali.nasr@tufts.edu.
• Emanuele Ottolenghi
is executive director of the Transatlantic Institute in Brussels, Belgium. In December 2007, he participated in the “Roundtable on Reform in the Arab and Islamic World:
The European Union and Iran” at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is an
expert on Middle Eastern politics, especially the Israel-Arab conflict. Contact ottolenghie@transatlanticinstitute.org.
• Itamar Rabinovich is a visiting fellow at the Saban Center
for Middle East Policy
at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. He is a former president of Tel
Aviv University and an expert on politics in the Arab world. Contact
202-797-6105.
• Amal Saad-Ghorayeb
is a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She is
an expert on Hezbollah. Contact saad-ghorayeb@carnegie-mec.org.
• Jean-Francois Seznec is a visiting associate professor at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies
at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. He is an expert on democratization
in the Persian Gulf region. Contact 202-687-5548, js243@georgetown.edu.
• Samer Shehata
is an assistant professor at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at
Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. His expertise is in comparative
politics in the Middle East and U.S. foreign policy in the region. Contact
202-687-7001, sss32@georgetown.edu.
• Steven Simon
is a senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign
Relations in Washington, D.C. He is an expert on Middle East politics and is
co-author of The Age of Sacred Terror and The Next Attack: The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting
It Right. He is also an expert on the role religion plays in U.S.
foreign policy. Contact 202-518-3437, ssimon@cfr.org.
• Shibley Telhami is a senior fellow at the Saban Center for
Middle East Policy
at the Brookings Institution and an expert on politics in the Persian Gulf and
in the Israeli-Palestinian arena. He is also the Anwar Sadat Professor for
Peace and Development at the University of Maryland in College Park. Contact
301-405-6734.
• Tamara Cofman Wittes
is a senior foreign policy fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. She is director of the
institution’s Middle East Democracy and Development Project.
Contact 202-797-6105.
SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA
• Hassan Abbas is a research fellow at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and
International Affairs in Cambridge, Mass. He is an expert on religious
extremism in South and Central Asia and is the author of a book on extremism in
Pakistan. Contact 508-308-0576,
hassan_abbas@ksg.harvard.edu.
• Azyumardi Azra
is a history professor and rector of Syarif Hidayatullah State
Islamic University in Jakarta, Indonesia. He is the author of numerous books,
including Indonesia, Islam and
Democracy: Dynamics in a Global Context (2006). Contact azyumardiazra@yahoo.com.
• Jacqueline Corcoran is senior resident director of the
National Democratic Institute for International Affairs – Bangladesh. The
organization’s goal is the strengthening of the country’s democratic process
and the monitoring of its elections. Contact 880-2-9883998, 9880388, info@ndibd.org.
• Sheila Fruman is resident director of the National
Democratic Institute for International Affairs’ office in Pakistan, where the organization works to promote democracy in the country’s political
process. Contact sfruman@ndi.org.
• Husain Haqqani
is a senior fellow at the Center on Islam, Democracy and the Future of the
Muslim World and director for the Center for International Relations at Boston
University. He is the author of Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military. Contact 617-358-0195, haqqani@bu.edu.
• Robert William Hefner is an anthropology professor and associate director of the Institute on
Culture, Religion and World Affairs at Boston University, where he directs the
program on Islam and civil society. His specialty is religion and politics in
Southeast Asia and the Muslim world, with a particular focus on Islam,
democratization and violence. He directed a project for the Pew Charitable
Trusts and the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs project titled “Madrasas,
Modernity and the Future of Muslim Higher Education.” He previously directed
another Pew project, a multicountry, collaborative effort called “Civil
Democratic Islam,” on prospects and policies for civic pluralism and democracy
in the Muslim world. Contact 617-558-2786, rhefner@bu.edu.
• Jim Oliver is the country director of the National
Democratic Institute for International Affairs for Sri Lanka,
where the organization has conducted election monitoring and roundtable
discussions for local legislative representatives. Contact joliver@ndi.org.
• Mridu Rai
is an associate professor of history at Yale University in New Haven, Conn. Her
work focuses on Muslims in India and on issues of religion and politics in
modern Kashmir. Contact 203-432-1354, mridu.rai@yale.edu
(on leave for 2007-2008 year).
• Paul Rowland is senior resident director of the National
Democratic Institute for International Affairs program in Indonesia,
where the organization works to monitor elections and support democratic
political parties and legislative representatives. Contact paulr@ndi.org.
• Teresita Schaffer
is director of the South Asia Program
at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. She is an expert in the
politics of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan, Nepal and Bangladesh,
which all have significant Muslim populations. Contact via email on the CSIS
Web site.
• Raissa Tatad-Hazell is senior program manager for the
National Democratic Institute for International Affairs’ Asia programs. She is
an expert on the political situation in Afghanistan,
where the organization has maintained an office since 2002. Contact mtatad@ndi.org.
EUROPE
• Zeyno Baran is an associate scholar at the Center on Islam, Democracy and the Future
of Muslim World and a senior fellow and director of the Hudson’s Center for Eurasian
Policy. She is an
expert on Islam and politics in Europe. Contact 202-974-2400.
• Jocelyne Cesari
is a visiting associate professor of Islamic studies at Harvard Divinity School
in Cambridge, Mass. She is the author of When Islam and Democracy Meet:
Muslims in Europe and in the United States (2004) and director of Harvard’s
Islam in the West Program.
Contact jcesari@fas.harvard.edu.
• H.A. Hellyer is an associate fellow at the University of Warwick in Warwick, England, and a
visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Saban Center for Middle East
Policy. He is an expert on Islam in Europe and has written several books on the
subject, including Islam in Europe: Multiculturalism and the European
“Other” (2007). He can discuss Islam and politics in Great Britain. Contact
H.A.Hellyer@warwick.ac.uk.
• Gilles Kepel heads the postgraduate program on the Arab and
Muslim worlds at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris, France. He is the
author of The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West (2004) and Jihad:
The Trial of Political Islam (2003). He was a supporter of the ban on
Muslim clothing in French public schools. Contact gilles.kepel@sciences-po.fr
• Alexander Knysh
is a professor of Islamic studies at the University of Michigan. He is a fellow
at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, where he
is writing about Islam and empire in the Northern Caucasus. Contact through May
2008 at 202-691-4054, Alexander.knysh@wilsoncenter.org,
and later at 734-615-1963, alknysh@umich.edu.
• Jonathan Laurence
is an assistant professor of political science at Boston College in Boston. He
specializes in Muslim identity in Europe, especially in Germany and France. He
has written widely about the integration of Muslims in France, including on the
controversy of Muslim girls wearing hijab to public school. Contact
617-552-8991, jonathan.laurence@bu.edu.
• Peter P. Mandaville
is an associate professor of government and politics and directs the Center for
Global Studies at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. His current research
is on the role of Muslim organizations and leadership in Europe and North
America, Contact 703-993-1054, pmandavi@gmu.edu.
• Jonas Otterbeck is an assistant professor of international migration and ethnic relations at Malmö
University in Sweden. He is an expert in Islam in Sweden. Contact
040 – 6657386, jonas.otterbeck@mah.se.
• Garbi Schmidt
works at the National Danish Institute of Social Research and is an expert in
activism among Muslim youth in Europe. Contact 45 33 48 08 96, gs@sfi.dk.
• Olivier Roy is research director at the French National
Center for Scientific Research
and the author of Globalized Islam:The Search for a New Ummah.
Contact 04 73 40 77 14, oroy@compuserve.com.
• Bassam Tibi is a professor of international relations at the University of Göttingen in Göttingen,
Germany, and an expert on radical fundamentalism in political Islam throughout
Europe and the Middle East. Contact +49 (0)551 / 39-7348, B.Tibi@sowi.uni-goettingen.de.
Background
• The Council on Foreign Relations offers a “backgrounder” on
Europe and the integration of Islam
that covers history and major issues confronting Muslims and the European
countries in which they live.
• Euro-Islam maintains a section of profiles of Islam and Muslims in various European countries, including demographics and
political involvement.
• “Islamic Extremism: Common Concern for Muslim and Western
Publics”
is a 2005 survey of 17,000 Muslims in 17 countries by the Pew Global Attitudes
Project. Among its findings is that many Muslims see extremism as a threat to
their countries.
• A July 2007 survey
by the Pew Global Attitudes Project finds support for suicide bombing dropping
in Muslim countries.
• The World Values Survey
was conducted by a global network of social scientists who study social,
cultural and political change.
• The Gallup Center for Muslim Studies posts data from its Gallup Poll of the Muslim World.
