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About the Contributors

Sara M. Awad is currently pursuing an undergraduate degree in Political Science and Interna- tional Law at the American University of Beirut. She is Executive Manager and Director of Fikra 3al Mashi, a nonprofit organization dedicated to teaching refugee youth critical theory and research skills. She is a staff writer for Out- look, an independent student publication at aub.

Rana Dajani is a Jordanian molecular biologist and Associate Professor at Hashemite Uni- versity. Dajani earned a PhD in molecular biology in 2005 from the University of Iowa. She has a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, as well as an Eisenhower Fellowship. Dajani is a Fulbright scholar alumna, having received two Fulbright awards. She is a former Yale visiting professor at the Yale stem cell center and a visiting scholar at the Univer- sity of Cambridge and the Stem Cell Therapy Center, Jordan.

Tariq Dana is Assistant Professor at the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies at the Doha Institute of Graduate Studies. He served as director of the Center for Development Studies at Birzeit University (2015–2017), and was a senior research fellow at Ibrahim Abu-Logoud Institute of International Studies. Dana is also a Policy Advisor for the Palestinian Policy Network (Al-Shabaka) and a member of the Political Economy Project (George Mason University). He was a visiting research fellow at the Graduate Institute of International and Devel- opment Studies in Geneva (2013–2014), and a PhD visiting fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London (2010–2011). He earned his PhD at Santa Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy.

Sonali Dhawan is a Program Associate with the American Bar Association’s Center for Hu- man Rights. She graduated from Georgetown University with a BA in Arabic

Science and Scientific Production in the Middle East 291 and Islamic Studies and Government in 2018, and she was a recipient of the Harvard University Center for Arabic Study Abroad (casa) fellowship in Am- man, Jordan, in 2018–19. She previously interned with Amnesty International usa, Human Rights Watch, and Save the Children.

Abdelkader Djeflat is Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics and Management at the University of Lille in France; Chair of the Maghreb Technology Network (maghtech); and Senior Fellow at the Clerse Laboratory (cnrs). He was ap- pointed full Professor in Economics at the University of Oran in Algeria in 1992, where he held the position of Dean of the Faculty of Economics and then Chair of the Scientific Council. Djeflat was also a researcher and member of the Sci- entific Board of the Centre of Applied Economics for Development (cread) in Algeria. He was principal consultant and member of the ad hoc committee on knowledge-based economy of the National Economic and Social Council (cnes) of Algeria and organized the country’s first national conference on knowledge-based economy. Djeflat has been a principal consultant for the World Bank Institute since 2002, and served as consultant on various projects for the United Nations Commission for Western Asia (escwa) and the economic commission for Africa (eca). Djeflat is coauthor of The Real Issues of the Middle East and the Arab Spring: Addressing Research, Innovation and Entrepre- neurship (Springer 2013).

Ayman Shabana is Associate Research Professor and Director of the Islamic Bioethics Project at Georgetown University in Qatar. His teaching and research interests include Islamic legal history, Islamic law and ethics, human rights, and bioethics. He is the author of Custom in Islamic Law and Legal Theory in addition to several book chapters and academic journal articles, which appeared in Islamic Law and So- ciety, Journal of Islamic Studies, Journal of Qur’anic Studies, Zygon, Hawwa, Jour- nal of Islamic Ethics, Religion Compass, and Medicine Health Care and Philoso- phy. He contributed to several reference works such as Encyclopedia of Islam iii, Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Law, Oxford Handbook of Islamic Law, Routledge Handbook of Islamic Law, and Oxford Handbook of Religious Perspectives on Reproductive Ethics. He is also the chief editor of the forthcoming Oxford Encyclopedia of Islamic Bioethics.

Parviz Tarikhi is a physicist and space science and technology specialist, majoring in radar remote sensing, and a freelance journalist and technical writer. He holds a PhD in physics from Knightsbridge University in Denmark, focusing on microwave sociology of islam 8 (2020) 290-292