Our Shared Future Opinion Leaders Network
The Our Shared Future Opinion Leaders Network is a community of scholars, academics and commentators who contribute ideas and research to help improve understanding between Muslims and non-Muslims in the US, the UK and the rest of Europe.
They share an interest in broadening the scope of the public conversation on relations with Muslim communities by providing access to accurate and fact-based research and scholarship.
Dr. Julie Ajinkya,
Policy Analyst, Center for American Progress
Mr. Mustafa Akyol,
Author and political commentator
Dr. Chris Allen,
Lecturer, Institute of Applied Social Studies, University of Birmingham
Prof. Ian Almond,
Professor of Transnational Literatures, Georgia State University
Prof. Valerie Amiraux,
Professor of Sociology, University of Montreal
Ms. Deborah Amos,
Correspondent, NPR
Dr. Reza Aslan,
Associate Professor of Creative Writing, University of California, Riverside
Prof. Cemil Aydin,
Professor of History and Director of the Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies, George Mason University
Prof. Moustafa Bayoumi,
Professor of English, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
Prof. Erik Bleich,
Professor of Political Science, Middlebury College
Dr. Marta Bolognani, Researcher, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, Bristol University
Dr. John R. Bowen,
Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor in Arts & Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis
Prof. Thomas Burman, Distinguished Professor of the Humanities and Head of the Department of History, University of Tennessee
Prof. Jocelyne Cesari,
Director, Islam in the West Program, Harvard University
Ms. Amina Chaudary,
Editor-in-Chief, Islamic Monthly
Prof. Vincent J. Cornell,
Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Middle East and Islamic Studies and Chair of the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies, Emory University
Mr. Youssef Courbage, Institute of Demographic Studies, Paris
Dr. Natana DeLong-Bas,
Part-time Faculty, Department of Theology, Boston College
Ms. Stephanie Durand,
Media Project Manager, Alliance of Civilizations
Dr. Brian T. Edwards,
Associate Professor, Northwestern University
Ms. Leena El-Ali,
Director, Partners in Humanity Program, Search For Common Ground
Mr. Tarek Elgawhary,
Director, Coexist Foundation
Dr. Fern Elsdon-Baker,
Program Director, Belief in Dialogue, British Council
Prof. John Esposito,
Founding Director, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University
Dr. Hussein Fancy,
Assistant Professor of History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Dr. Catherine Fieschi,
Director, Counterpoint Think Tank
Prof. Emily Gottreich,
Founding Director, Initiative for the Study of Muslim-Jewish Relations, UC Berkeley
Dr. Muhammad Abdel Haleem,
Professor of Islamic Studies, University of London
Dr. Sumaiya Hamdani,
Associate Professor, World History, George Mason University
Prof. Nader Hashemi,
Assistant Professor of Middle East and Islamic Politics, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver
Dr. Sasha Havlicek,
Founding CEO and Director Strategic Dialogue Institute
Dr. H. A. Hellyer,
Senior Practice Consultant & Senior Analyst for the Abu Dhabi Gallup Center & the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies
Prof. Susannah Heschel,
Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth College
Ms. Rosemary Hilhorst,
Regional Director, European Union, British Council
Dr. Qamar-ul Huda,
Senior Program Officer, Religion and Peacemaking Center of Innovation, US Insitute of Peace
Prof. Aziz Huq, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago Law School
Prof. Adnan Husain,
Associate Professor of History, Queen's University
Mr. Rashad Hussain,
Special Envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference, US Department of State
Dr. Azeem Ibrahim,
President, Ibrahim Associates
Mr. Shamil Idriss,
Chief Executive Officer, Soliya
Ms. Sarah Joseph,
CEO and Editor, Emel Magazine
Prof. Muqtedar Khan,
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Delaware
Ms. Samantha Kirby,
Public Affairs Manager, Interfaith Youth Core
Mr. Alex Kronemer,
Executive Producer and CEO, Unity Productions Foundation
Prof. Abdeslam Maghraoui, Associate Professor of the Practice of Political Science, Duke University
Dr. Aftab Malik,
Visiting Fellow, Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Culture, University of Birmingham
Prof. Peter Mandaville,
Co-Director, Center for Global Studies, George Mason University
Dr. Gema Martin-Muñoz,
Director, Casa Arabe
Mr. Daanish Masood,
Head of Media, Alliance of Civilizations
Ms. Melody Moezzi,
Writer and Blogger
Ms. Zeenat Rahman,
Deputy Director, Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, USAID
Dr. Hussein Rashid,
Adjunct Instructor of Religion, Hofstra University
Prof. Jen'nan Read,
Associate Professor, Sociology and Global Health, Duke University
Dr. Magali Rheault,
Senior Analyst, Center for Muslim Studies, Gallup
Dr. Nadia Roumani,
Co-Founder and Director, American Muslim Civic Leadership Institute
Ambassador Cynthia Schneider, Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy, Georgetown University
Mr. Haroon Siddiqui,
Editor and Columnist, The Toronto Star
Dr. Sara Silvestri,
Senior Lecturer in International Politics, City University of London
Prof. Tamara Sonn,
Distinguished Professor of the Humanit, College of William & Mary
Dr. Riem Spielhaus,
Research Fellow, Centre for European Islamic Thought, University of Copenhagen
Prof. Yasir Suleiman,
Professor of Modern Arabic Studies, Cambridge University
Mr. Daniel Tutt,
Outreach Director, Unity Productions Foundation
Prof. John Voll,
Professor of Islamic History, Georgetown University
Dr. Hillary Weisner,
Director, Islam Initiative, Carnegie Corporation
Ms. Sarah Wildman,
Writer, Journalist, Blogger
Mr. Mohamed Younis,
Senior Analyst, Center for Muslim Studies, Gallup
Mr. Robert D. Crews,
Director for the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Stanford University
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Dr. A David Lewis,
Comics studies scholars
