Linda Herrera and Asef Bayat

Linda Herrera is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies and the Global Studies in Education MA program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the co-editor of Being Young and Muslim: New Cultural Politics in the Global South and North (Oxford University Press, 2010) and Cultures of Arab Schooling: Critical Ethnographies from Egypt (State University of New York Press, 2006); editor of Qiyam! Julus! Thaqafat al-Ta’alim fi Misr [“Stand-up! Sit Down!” Cultures of Schooling in Egypt] (Cairo Population Council, 2003); and author of Scenes of Schooling: Inside a Girls’ School in Cairo (Cairo Papers in Social Science, 1992).

Asef Bayat is Professor of Sociology and Middle East Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the co-editor of Being Young and Muslim: New Cultural Politics in the Global South and North (Oxford University Press, 2010) and author of Making Islam Democratic: Social Movements and the Post-Islamist Turn (Stanford University Press, 2007) and Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East (Stanford University Press, 2010).