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Team

 

The Quilting Point Team

 
Bassam Haddad is Director of the Middle East Studies Program and Associate Professor in the Department of Public and International Affairs at George Mason University, and is Visiting Professor at Georgetown University. He is the author of Business N…
Sinan Antoon is a poet, novelist and translator. His poems and essays (in Arabic) have appeared in as-Safir, al-Adab, al-Akhbar, al-Hayat, Majallat al-Dirasat al-Filastiniyya, Masharef and (in English) in TheNation, Middle East Report, Al-Ahram Week…
Maya Mikdashi received her PhD from Columbia University's Department of Anthropology. She is Co-Director of the documentary film About Baghdad. Maya is currently a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Rutgers University. She is Co-Founder/Editor of Jadaliy…
 
John Warner is the Research and Development Manager at the Arab Studies Institute. He received his MPhil in cultural anthropology from the City University of New York Graduate Center and his MA in Arab Studies from Georgetown University. He has taug…
Dirar Hakeem is a networking engineer who works as a senior consultant in the Washington DC area. He manages the translation and subtitling process at Quilting Point and serves as an assistant editor for special segments. Dirar is co-producer of thi…
Ziad Abu-Rish is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Ohio University. His research interests focus on state formation, economic development, and social mobilization in the mid-twentieth-century Levant. Abu-Rish is currently working o…
 
Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney and writer. She is currently an Assistant Professor at George Mason University. She has taught International Human Rights Law and the Middle East at Georgetown University since Spring 2009. Prior to joining GM…
Tareq Radi is a Palestinian-American organizer based in Washington, DC. He is currently the Public Affairs Coordinator at Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies. Tareq is leading an initiative to mine historical and contemporar…
Adel Iskandar is an Assistant Professor of Global Communication at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver/Burnaby, Canada. He is the author, co-author, and editor of several works including "Egypt In Flux: Essays on an Unfinished Revolution" (AUCP/OUP…
 
Nour Joudah has a MA in Arab Studies from Georgetown University, and wrote her MA thesis on the role and perception of exile politics within the Palestinian liberation struggle, in particular among politically active Palestinian youth living in the …
Tamar Ghabin works at the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation as the Government Affairs Associate. She is currently working on distribution for Quilting Point's Gaza in Context. Tamar holds a B.A. in International Affairs from Northeastern Uni…
Adrian Tafesh is about to pursue is his Masters at the University of Washington, and has a B.A. in English from James Madison University. He is currently working on Quilting Point and Status Hour.