Mohamed-Ali Adraoui is a Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow at the Edmund A. Walsch School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Through his fellowship posts at the European University Institute and National University of Singapore, he produced an edited volume titled The Foreign Policy of Islamist Political Parties: Ideology in Practice with Edinburgh University Press in 2018.
Farhood Badri is a research fellow and PhD candidate at the Department of Political Science of the Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany. His research interests are international norms and norm contestation in International Relations, with a special focus on religious freedom, post-secularism, Islam and reformist Islamic discourse.
Marina Eleftheriadou is an adjunct lecturer at the Department of Political Science and International Relations of the University of the Peloponnese and a senior editor at the Centre for Mediterranean, Middle East and Islamic Studies. Her research focuses on non-state armed actors in the Middle East and North Africa region.
Mohammed Hashas is an adjunct assistant professor at LUISS Guido Carli University of Rome. He authored Intercultural Geopoetics: An Introduction to Kenneth White’s Open World (2017) and The Idea of European Islam (forthcoming) and has co-edited Islam, State and Modernity: Mohamed Abed Al Jabri and the Future of the Arab World (2017) and Imams in Western Europe: Authority, Training and Institutional Challenges (2018).
Muhammad Haniff Hassan is a research fellow at S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He can be contacted at ismhaniff@ntu.edu.sg.
Shaimaa Magued is an assistant professor on the faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University. Her research focuses on International Relations in the Middle East, Turkish foreign policy and Political Islam.
Seyed Mohammad Marandi is a professor in English literature and Orientalism at the University of Tehran. He currently chairs the University of Tehran’s American Studies Department.
Hanna Pfeifer is a postdoctoral visiting scholar at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge. Her research is interested in the transforming world order and the role of Arab states and non-state actors in challenging, reproducing and reinventing global order.
Nicholas P. Roberts is a PhD candidate in history at the University of Notre Dame, where he studies modern Islamic thought with Ebrahim Moosa. His dissertation is a history of state building and modern Ibadi political theology in Oman.
Sotiris Roussos is an associate professor of International Relations and religion in the Middle East in the Department of Political Science and International Relations of the University of the Peloponnese and Academic Supervisor of the Centre for Mediterranean, Middle East and Islamic Studies.
Jason E. Strakes is an international associate member of the Department of Modern Middle and Near East History at the G. Tsereteli Institute for Oriental Studies in Tbilisi, Georgia. His research interests include the role of geography and territoriality in Middle Eastern international relations and Islamic thought.