Grant VI Presenters






	Presenters Asma P. Ahmad Manager of Network Operations at Sprint Nextel’s domestic transport network in Overland Park, Kansas. Education M.S. in Electrical Engineering – University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri B.S. in Electronics Engineering – India Interests and activities Served on the Board of the Islamic Center of Kansas; volunteer at the Islamic School of Kansas City Les Grau Research Coordinator for the Foreign Military Studies Office at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Education M.A., International Relations, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio B.A., Political Science, University of Texas, El Paso Areas of Specialization: Military history; Russia and the former Soviet Union Author of: The Soviet-Afghan War: How a Superpower Fought and Lost The Bear Went Over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan http://fmso.leavenworth.army.mil Mohammed Hafez Visiting Professor of Political Science, University of Missouri Kansas City Education Ph.D., International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science M.A., International Relations, University of Southern California, Los Angeles B.A., Political Science, University of California at Los Angeles Areas of Specialization: Religious political movements and extremism Author of: Manufacturing Human Bombs: The Making of Palestinian Suicide Bombers and Suicide Bombers in Iraq http://h.faculty.umkc.edu/hafezm/index.htm Majid Hannoum Assistant Professor of African and African-American Studies and Anthropology, University of Kansas Education Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies and Anthropology, Princeton University, 1996, Ph.D. in Arabic and Comparative Literature, Sorbonne, 1991 Areas of Specialization Islamic social and political movements; Islam, colonialism, and nationalism in North Africa; religion, power, and sexuality in Arab societies Author of: Colonial Histories, Postcolonial Memories; Colonizing the Imaginary: Culture and Events in North Africa (under review) http://www2.ku.edu/~afs/faculty_staff/people/majid_hannoum.shtml Nellie Harder (van Doorn-Harder) Associate Professor of World Religions and Ethics, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana Education Ph.D., Department of Theology - Free University of Amsterdam, 1993 M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies – University of Amsterdam, 1982 B.A. in Theology – University of Amsterdam, 1986 B.A. in Middle Eastern Studies – University of Utrecht, 1978 Areas of Specialization Islam in Southeast Asia; women and world religion; religious feminist discourse; inter-religious peace studies; the Coptic Orthodox Church; Muslim and Christian mysticism Author of: Women Shaping Islam: Indonesian Muslim Women Reading the Qur’an; Contemporary Coptic Nuns http://www.valpo.edu/theology/vandoorn.php Imam Omar Hazim Imam of the Islamic Center of Topeka, Kansas; advisor to the Kansas Department of Corrections; builder Interests and activities Establishment and building of mosques; interfaith dialogue; social justice and human and civil rights http://www.topekamosque.org/Imam/index.shtml Syed Akbar Hyder Associate Professor, South Asia Institute, University of Texas, Austin Education Ph.D., Harvard University Research interests Islam in South Asia, Urdu language and literature, Aesthetics in South Asia and the Middle East. Recent Publications Reliving Karbala: Martyrdom in South Asian Memory (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006); A'iye Urdu Parhen: Let's Study Urdu, An Introductory Urdu Textbook (with Ali Asani, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006) http://www.utexas.edu/cola/insts/southasia/faculty/profiles/Hyder/Syed Akbar/ Mohammed Ibahrine Assistant Professor of Communication and Political Sciences, Al-Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco Education Ph.D., Political Science, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany Areas of Specialization: communication technologies and socio-political change in the Arab world Author of: The Political Use of the Internet by Islamic Political Movements in Morocco New Media and Neo-Islamism http://www.aui.ma/personal/~M.Ibahrine Manoucher Khosrowshahi Professor, Department of Government, University Studies, Tyler Junior College, Tyler, Texas Education Ph.D. in Political Science - University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, 1983 M.A. in Political Science - Tehran University, Iran, 1978 B.A. in Political Science - National University of Iran, 1976 Areas of Specialization Global education; comparative politics; Turkey http://socialscience.tjc.edu/mkho Marilyn Klaus Adjunct Lecturer, Department of African and African American Studies, University of Kansas Education M.A in Religious Studies – University of Kansas, 2000 M. Div. – Mennonite Biblical Seminary, 1977 B.A. in Spanish/French – Purdue University Areas of Specialization Women’s studies; comparative religions Carla Klausner Professor, History - University of Missouri, Kansas City Education Ph.D. in History and Middle East Studies - Harvard University, 1963 M.A. in Middle East Studies - Radcliffe College, 1960 B.A. in History – Barnard College, 1958 Areas of Specialization Middle Eastern history; Arab-Israeli conflict; Judaic studies Author of: A Concise History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Fourth Edition http://cas.umkc.edu/history/faculty/KlausnerC/cv.htm Beverly Mack Professor, Department of African and African American Studies, University of Kansas Education Ph.D. in African Languages and Literature – University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1981 M.A. in African Literature University of Wisconsin Madison, 1978 B.A. in English/Anthropology University of Connecticut, 1973 Areas of Specialization Women and Islam; Islamic literature; Hausa language; North and West Africa Author of: Muslim Women Sing: Hausa Popular Song; One Woman’s Jihad: Nana Asma’u, Scholar and Scribe http://www2.ku.edu/~afs/faculty_staff/people/beverly_mack.shtml Naima Omar Assistant Professor, Department of African & African-American Studies, University of Kansas Education Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics - University of Texas at Austin, 1999 M.Ed. In Education - University of Exeter, the United Kingdom, 1991 Diplôme de Fin d’Etudes Supérieures. Lettres Anglaises - Ecole Normale Supérieure, Tunis, Tunisia, 1976 Areas of Specialization Sociolinguistics: Language change and language variation in the Arab world; Applied Linguistics: Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language http://www.arabic.ku.edu/contact.html Sara Orel Associate Professor of Art, Truman State University Education Ph.D. in Egyptian Archaeology - University of Toronto M.A. in Egyptian Archaeology - University of Toronto B.A. in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology - Bryn Mawr College Areas of Specialization Ancient Egyptian language; cultures of the Middle East and North Africa; Southeast Asian art; Mediterranean art and architecture Author of: The Larger Necropolis at Beni Hasan: Chronology and Social Stratification in a Middle Egyptian Cemetery http://finearts.truman.edu/art/html/orel.html Margaret Rausch Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, University of Kansas Education Ph.D. in Islamic Studies, Free University, Berlin, Germany M.A. in Middle Eastern History, Ohio State University B.A. in French Language and Literature, Ohio State University Areas of Specialization Muslim women’s rituals, Sufism, women and Islamic education, Berber women of Morocco, Tajik women’s rituals Author of: Bodies, Boundaries, and Spirit Possession: Moroccan Women and the Revision of Tradition (in progress) Muslim Women’s Rituals: Gender and Authority in the Islamic World http://www2.ku.edu/~rstudies/Rausch.shtml Mounira G. Soliman Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University Education Ph.D., Comparative Literature, 2002, Cairo University, Egypt M.A., English and Comparative Literature, The American University, Cairo, Egypt B.A., English Literature, 1989, Cairo University, Egypt Areas of Specialization: Magic realism in African and American fiction; teaching of English as a second language; women writers Co-author of: The Egyptian Women Artist Movement http://www.cu.edu.eg/english Timothy L. Thomas Analyst and author for the Foreign Military Studies Office, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and adjunct professor at the U.S. Army’s Eurasian Institute and the USAF Special Operations School Education M.A., University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California B.S., United States Military Academy, West Point, New York Areas of Specialization: Peacekeeping, information war, psychological operations, low intensity conflict, and political-military affairs Author of: Cyber Silhouettes: Shadows Over Information Operations http://fmso.leavenworth.army.mil Kevin Thompson Russian Analyst at the Foreign Military Studies Office, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas Education J.D., Hamline School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1999 B.A., German, Monterey Institute of International Studies, Monterey, California, 1992 Areas of Specialization: Russian anti-terrorism laws; labor relations Editor of: Russia Military and Security Watch, a bi-monthly publication which focuses on Russian military, political and economic developments http://fmso.leavenworth.army.mil John O. Voll Professor of Islamic History and Associate Director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University, Washington, DC Education B.A., Dartmouth College M.A., Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, 1960 Ph.D., History and Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, 1969 Areas of Specialization Modern Islam; Sudanese history; Muslim-Christian dialogue; world history Author of: Islam: Continuity and Change in the Modern World Makers of Contemporary Islam (with John Esposito) http://explore.georgetown.edu/people/vollj Thomas P. Wilhelm Director of the Foreign Military Studies Office, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas Education M.A., University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas B.A., United States Military Academy, West Point, New York Areas of Specialization: Foreign perspectives of the future security environment; Asian and Eurasian studies http://fmso.leavenworth.army.mil Ahmed Zekri Professor and Head of UFR Department: Management School, University Mohammed V, Agdal Rabat, Morocco Education: Ph.D. in Economic Sciences – Lyon II University, France M.S. in Economics – Lille II University, France M.A. in Marketing and Management – Institute of Higher Education in Information and Communication CELSA-N, Seine, France M.A. in Development Economics - Lille II University, France B.A. in Economics – American University, Cairo Areas of Specialization Arab world economies; Moroccan political economy and development; migration and human right Author of: The Moroccan Migrant in Italy as a Development and Innovative Agent in the Communities of Origin