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Seteney Shami is founding Director-General of the Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS) since 2012. She is an anthropologist from Jordan and obtained her BA from the American University of Beirut and her MA and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. She has conducted fieldwork in Jordan, Egypt, Turkey, and the North Caucasus. After teaching at Yarmouk University, Jordan, she moved in 1996 to the Population Council in Cairo. In 1999, she joined the SSRC in New York as director of the Middle East and North Africa program and the Eurasia program. She also developed the InterAsia Partnership program hosted by the SSRC until 2021 and currently hosted by the ACSS. Her publications include Seeing the World: How US Universities make knowledge in a Global Era (co-authored with M. Stevens and C. Miller-Idriss) Princeton University Press 2018; and "South and North, East and West: Knowledge Circulations and Connections in a Disordered World" In Thinking the Re-Thinking of the World (eds. K. Kresse and A. Sounaye) De Gruyter 2022.

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Charles Kurzman is Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a leading scholar of social movements, revolution, and political change in the Muslim world. He is the author of several influential books, including The Missing Martyrs: Why There Are So Few Muslim Terrorists, Democracy Denied, 1905-1915, and The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran. His research draws on historical analysis, public opinion data, and firsthand sources to challenge conventional assumptions about Islam, violence, and democratization, and his work has shaped scholarly and public debates on revolution, terrorism, and global political transformation.