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Amira Elghawaby

Communications DirectorThe National Council of Canadian Muslims

Amira Elghawaby leads the NCCM’s media relations, public engagement and strategic communications.

Islam Issa

Senior Lecturer, School of EnglishBirmingham City University

Islam Issa's research focuses primarily on the modern-day reception of Renaissance and Early Modern English literature in global contexts.

Amir Hussain

Professor and Chair of Theological StudiesLoyola Marymount University

Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts

Sheema Khan

Patent AgentShapiro Cohen LLP

Patent Agent. Writer. Speaker (Tedx)

Natasha Bakht

Associate ProfessorUniversity of Ottawa

Professor Bakht’s research interests are in the intersecting area of religious freedom and women’s equality.

Charles Kurzman, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Sociology, and co-director of the Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations, College of Arts and SciencesUNC-Chapel Hill

Charles Kurzman is a Professor of Sociology at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill specializing in Middle East and Islamic studies.

Professor Imran Awan

Professor and Deputy Director of the Centre for Applied CriminologyBirmingham City University

Professor Imran Awan is one of the country’s leading criminologists and experts on Islamophobia and countering extremism.

Farha Abbasi

Assistant Professor of PsychiatryMichigan State University

Expert on cultural psychiatry, Muslim issues related to mental health

Moses Ochonu

Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of HistoryVanderbilt University

Expert in the modern history of Africa, with a particular focus on the colonial and postcolonial periods.

Ruba Ali Al-Hassani

Iraqi-Canadian Socio-Legal Academic & Advocate