Speakers

Juan Cole

Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History, University of Michigan

Juan R. I. Cole is Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. For four decades, he has sought to put the relationship of the West and the Muslim world in historical context. His most recent book is The Rubaiyat of...

Deniz Coşan Eke

Post-doc Researcher, University of Vienna

Deniz Cosan Eke (Dr. phil.) works as a post-doc researcher in the Alevi Theological Studies at the University of Vienna in Austria. She received her BA and first MSc in Sociology from Middle East Technical University, Ankara in Turkey. She completed...

Farhad Daftary

Co-Director, The Institute of Ismaili Studies

Farhad Daftary completed his early and secondary education in Tehran, Rome, and London, before going to Washington, D.C., in 1958. He received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the American University there, and then continued his graduate studies at the...

Dagikhudo Dagiev

Senior Research Associate, The Institute of Ismaili Studies

Dagikhudo Dagiev is a Senior Research Associate in Shiʿi Studies Unit at the Department of Academic Research and Publications, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, where he teaches courses on the history of the Islamic world with a particular focus...

Aurélie Daher

Lecturer, Paris-Dauphine University

Aurélie Daher is a French, English and Arabic-speaking academic who teaches political science and the sociology of conflicts at University of Paris-Dauphine (PSL), Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS Ulm) and Sciences Po Paris. At Paris-Dauphine, she is co-head...

 Maria De Cillis

Senior Research Associate, The Institute of Ismaili Studies

Maria De Cillis is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, where she is also the Series Editor of the Shiʿi Heritage Series. She has authored Salvation and Destiny in Islam: The Shiʿi Ismaili Perspective of Ḥamīd al-Dīn al...

Simon Wolfgang Fuchs

Lecturer in Islamic and Middle East Studies, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg

Simon is a Lecturer in Islamic and Middle East Studies at the University of Freiburg, Germany. He is interested in transnational Islam and how the Islamic scholarly tradition is debated and negotiated in modern and contemporary Muslim societies, in...

Aghiad Ghanem

Fellow Researcher, SciencesPo Centre for International Studies

Aghiad Ghanem is a fellow researcher at SciencesPo’s Centre for International Studies (CERI) and at the French Institute of Anatolian Studies (IFEA). He holds a master and a Ph.D. degree in Political Science and International Relations from SciencesPo...

Sumaiya Hamdani

Associate Professor, George Mason University

Sumaiya Hamdani is Associate Professor of History at George Mason University, where she teaches courses on Middle East, Islamic and world history, as well Women in Islam, Race and Slavery in Islam, and Crusade and Jihad, among other topics. She also...

Yousef Hamidaddin

Managing Partner, Venture X

Yousef Hamidaddin has worked as an advisor to the World Bank and The Innovative Startups and SMEs Fund (“ISSF”) which is a private sector USD 98 million fund making investments in innovative startups and early stage SMEs. He was a board member of ICTAC...

Zahra Jamal

Associate Director, Rice University's Boniuk Institute for Religious Tolerance

Zahra N. Jamal is Associate Director at Rice University's Boniuk Institute for Religious Tolerance, and a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Consultant. An award-winning former faculty member at Harvard and MIT, Dr. Jamal was founding director of the Civil...

Hussain Jasani

Head, South Asian Studies, The Institute of Ismaili Studies

Hussain Jasani is the Head of the South Asian Studies (SAS) Unit at The Institute of Ismaili Studies (IIS), London. As the founding member of the SAS unit at the IIS, Hussain has the responsibility of defining the strategic vision for the Unit, setting...