Dina Rizk Khoury, George Washington University

Dina Rizk Khoury is Associate Professor of History and International Affairs at George Washington University. She received her B.A. from the American University of Beirut and her PhD in History from Georgetown University.

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War and Memory in Iraq
Teaching Iraqi History
Popular Politics in the Early Modern Middle East

Leslie Peirce, University of California, Berkeley

Leslie Peirce received her MA in Middle East Studies from Harvard University, and a PhD in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University. Peirce taught at Cornell for ten years, until moving to Berkeley in 1998. Her interests are Ottoman society and politics in the pre-modern period, and she generally places women at the center of her work, to see what politics and social processes look like from that vantage point. Peirce is the author of two books: The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire, Oxford University Press, 1993 (winner of the Turkish Studies Association book prize); Morality Tales: Law and Gender in the Ottoman Court of Aintab, California University Press, 2003.

Sample lecture topics
Power and Politics in the Ottoman Imperial Harem
Women and Islamic Law in the Pre-modern Middle East

Donald M. Reid, Georgia State University

Donald Reid is Professor of History at Georgia State University and author of Whose Pharaohs? Archaeology, Museums, and Egyptian National Identity from Napoleon to World War I; Cairo University and The Making of Modern Egypt; and Lawyers and Politics in the Arab World, 1880-1990.

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Whose Pharaohs? Museums, Archaeology, and
Modern Egyptian National Identity
Egyptian-American Encounters from Muhammad
Ali

John O. Voll, Georgetown University

John Voll is the director of the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding and professor of Islamic history at Georgetown University. He is the author of Islam: Continuity and Change in the Modern World and co-author (with John L. Esposito) of Islam and Democracy and Makers of Contemporary Islam and is author, co-author, or editor of eight other volumes. He has taught Islamic, Middle Eastern, and world history at the University of New Hampshire and Georgetown University, and has written on movements of Islamic renewal in the modern and contemporary eras.

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I have given lectures recently that cover topics with titles like "Barbie Dolls and Terrorism: Old Conflicts & New Identities," "What does Bin Ladin Really Say and What Can We Do About It?", "Big Macs & al-Qa'idah: The Franchising of Terrorism," "Beyond Crusades & Jihads."
Transnational Islamic Networks: Contemporary and Historic
After Political Islam: Movements and Ideologies in the Post-Islamist Era
Muslim-Christian Relations in World History