Khaled Abou El Fadl is the Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Distinguished Fellow in Islamic Law at UCLA and author most recently of The Place of Tolerance in Islam.

Cal Bedient’s most recent book of poems is The Violence of the Morning.

Mark Bibbins’s first book of poems, Sky Lounge, will be published by Graywolf this May. He is a founding editor of Lit magazine and lives in New York City.

Tom Bissell has published work in Harper’s, Men’s Journal, and other publications.

Stephen Burt is author of Popular Music, a book of poems, and Randall Jarrell and His Age. He teaches at Macalester College.

Owen R. Cote, Jr., is associate director of MIT’s Security Studies Program and a coeditor of the journal International Security.

John L. Esposito, University Professor and professor of religion and international affairs, Georgetown University, is author of Unholy War and Islam and Democracy (with John Voll).

Mohammad H. Fadel has clerked on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and and currently practices law in Manhattan.

Noah Feldman, assistant professor of law at the New York University School of Law, is author of After Jihad.

Margaret Funkhouser, 2002–2003 Fellow in the Writing Program at Washington University, has poems forthcoming in Delmar and Paris Review.

Bernard Haykel is assistant professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at New York University and author ofRevival and Reform in Islam.

Nader A. Hashemi is working on his dissertation, “Toward A Democratic Theory for Muslim Societies,” in political science at the University of Toronto.

Claire Hero’s poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Willow Springs, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of an AWP Intro Award and is a poetry editor for Pleiades.

Joan Houlihan’s poems have appeared in Black Warrior Review, Harvard Review, and elsewhere.

Jennifer Howard is a contributing editor of the Washington Post Book World.

A. L. Kennedy is the award-winning author most recently of Everything You Need and the forthcoming collection of stories Indelible Acts.

M. A. Muqtedar Khan, director of international studies, assistant professor and chair, department of political science at Adrian College, is author of American Muslims.

Joanna Klink is author of They Are Sleeping. She teaches at the University of Montana.

Saba Mahmood teaches at the University of Chicago. Her work focuses on issues of secularism, gender, and modernity within the context of Islamist movements in the Middle East and South Asia.

Maureen N. McLane, author of Romanticism and the Human Sciences: Poetry, is currently a junior fellow at The Society of Fellows, Harvard University.

Margriet de Moor’s most recent books include Duke of Egypt and Coast Town.

Fred Muratori’s most recent book of poems is Despite Repeated Warnings. He is bibliographer for Anglo-American and comparative literature at the Cornell University Library.

Benjamin Paloff, a frequent contributor to Boston Review and Harvard Review, has poems forthcoming in Paris Review, Partisan Review, and elsewhere.

D. A. Powell is author of Lunch and Tea. A past recipient of Boston Review’s Poetry Award, his most recent work, Cocktails, is forthcoming.

William B. Quandt is Edward R. Stettinius Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia and author of Peace Process and Between Ballots and Bullets.

A. Kevin Reinhart teaches Islamic and religious studies at Dartmouth College. He works on Islamic ethics and Late Ottoman–period Islam.

George Scialabba writes about books in Boston Review, the Boston Globe, and elsewhere.

Peter Jay Shippy teaches at Emerson College.

Alan A. Stone is Toureff-Glueck Professor of Law and Psychiatry at Harvard Law School.

Liz Waldner’s most recent books of poetry are Self and Simulacra, Dark Would (the missing person), and Etym(bi)ology.

Jeremy Waldron is Maurice and Hilda Friedman Professor of Law at Columbia University. His most recent books are The Dignity of Legislation and God, Locke, and Equality.

Ken White lives in Los Angeles.

Greg Wrenn currently lives in Jacksonville, Florida, where he will be teaching high school English and philosophy in the fall.

Andrew Zawacki is author of a By Reason of Breakings and Masquerade