Islam and the Middle East

Shibley Telhami - Anwar Sadat Professor of Peace and Development, University of Maryland
Expertise: Middle East foreign policy and politics; Arab-Israeli dispute; psychology of peace

Credentials: senior fellow, Brookings Institution; books include, The Stakes: America and the Middle East and Identity and Foreign Policy in the Middle East; appointed by President Clinton to the United States Institute of Peace board
Contact: 301-405-6734 (office); sadat@gvpt.umd.edu; or Neil Tickner, 301-405-4622 (office); 301-257-0073 (after-hours)
Web site: http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/bio.asp?id=17

Jillian Schwedler - professor of political science, University of Maryland
Expertise: politics of the Islamic world; increased political repression by Arab regimes, post- September 11

Credentials: an editor of the journal Middle East Report, wrote Towards Civil Society in the Middle East? A Primer, forthcoming new book is Faith in Democracy? Framing Political Islam in Jordan and Yemen
Contact: 917-309-9056 (cell); 301-405-4115 (office); jschwedler@gvpt.umd.edu
Web site: www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/schwedler/

Madeline Zilfi - professor of history, University of Maryland
Expertise: history of Islam and Middle East; gender issues

Credentials: author of The Politics of Piety: The Ottoman Ulema in the Post-Classical Age, editor of Women in the Ottoman Empire: Middle Eastern Women in the Early Modern Era
Contact: 301-405-4270 (office); mz11@umail.umd.edu; or Neil Tickner, 301-405-4622; 301-257-0073 (after-hours)
Web site: www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Colleges/ARHU/Depts/History/Bio/zilfi.html

William Taft Stuart - professor of anthropology, University of Maryland
Expertise: origins and effects of fundamentalism, including Islamic movements; comparative religion, especially new religious movements

Credentials: conducted extensive research in the Middle East, Latin America, Central and Southern Africa, Eastern Europe and Oceania; written widely on new religions
Contact: 301-405-1435 (office); 301-840-0593 (home); wstuart@anth.umd.edu
Web site: www.bsos.umd.edu/anth/stuart.htm

Charles Butterworth - professor of government and politics, University of Maryland
Expertise: Islamic culture; medieval Arabic and Islamic political philosophy

Credentials: former president of the American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies; lived and studied in most of the Arabic speaking countries of the Middle East and North Africa
Contact: 301-405-4110 (office); cebworth@gvpt.umd.edu; or Neil Tickner at 301-405-4622; 301-257-0073 (after-hours)
Web site: www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/butterworth/

Gerald Lampe - senior associate, National Foreign Language Center, University of Maryland
Expertise: Middle Eastern cultures; Arabic and its dialects

Credentials: former Director, Center for Arabic Studies Abroad; author of numerous textbooks in Arabic and its dialects; consultant to the Department of State on Arabic
Contact: 202-637-8881 (office 1); 301-403-1750 (office 2); glampe@nflc.org; or Neil Tickner, 301-405-4622, 301-257-0073 (after-hours)
Web site: www.nflc.org/