Muhammad Amasha is a graduate student in Sociology, currently based in Turkey, whose academic interests include political sociology, sociology of religion, sociology of art, and sociology of intellectuals. His current research focuses on two areas: the politics of the ulama and intellectuals, especially in the context of the Arab Spring; and the musical scene in the Arab world, especially mahragānāt music.
Nathan J. Brown is professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University. He is author of several books on politics, religion, and law in the Arab world, most recently Arguing Islam after the Rebirth of Arab Politics (Oxford University Press, 2017).
Walaa Quisay is a former fellow at the University of Birmingham and Istanbul Sehir University. She taught courses on Islamic Studies, Religious Studies, and Sociology. She has received her DPhil from the University Oxford where she researched Neo-Traditionalist Muslim networks in the West with a focus on how they navigate, modernity, tradition, and politics. Her research interests include Muslim political subjectivities, theodicy, spirituality, traditionalist, and modernist Islamic trends.
David Warren is a Post-Doctoral Fellow whose research examines the politics of the Muslim scholarly-elite (the ulama) in the Arab World. His first book, Rivals in the Gulf: Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Abdullah Bin Bayyah, and the Qatar-UAE Contest Over Islamic Authority, the Arab Spring, and the Gulf Crisis is forthcoming in 2021.
