Global Islamophobia: Understanding its Roots, Challenging its Impact

Dr. Asifa Quraishi-Landes
Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Dr. Quraishi-Landes specializes in comparative Islamic and U.S. constitutional law.
She has served as a Public Delegate on the United States Delegation to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, the Task Force on Religion and the Making of U.S.
Foreign Policy for the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and as an advisor to the Pew Task Force on Religion and Public Life. 

She currently serves on the governing board of the Section on Islamic Law for the Association of American Law Schools.
She is an affiliate of the Muslim Women's League, a Fellow with the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, and a member of the “Opinion Leaders Network” for the British Council's ‘Our Shared Future’ project.

Dr. John L. Esposito
Professor of Religion and International Affairs and Islamic Studies

Dr. Esposito is Founding Director of the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding and The Bridge Initiative:
Protecting Pluralism – Ending Islamophobia at Georgetown University.
In 2019, he was S. Rajaratnam Professor of Strategic Studies at the Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore.

Dr. Esposito has more than 55 books in print, including: Islam and Democracy after the Arab Spring,
What Everyone Needs to Know about Islam, The Future of Islam, and Who Speaks for Islam?:
What a Billion Muslims Really Think. He is a former President of the American Academy of Religion
and the Middle East Studies Association, and a Senior Scientist for The Gallup Center for Muslim Studies. 

Ms. Karen Armstrong OBE, FRSL
Distinguished Author

Ms. Armstrong is a renowned commentator on religion, with numerous publications including:
A History of God, The Lost Art of Scripture: Rescuing the Sacred Texts; Islam; Buddha; The Great Transformation; and The Case for God.

She has addressed the US Congress on three occasions, and has been a Trustee of the British Museum.
In 2006, she was invited by Kofi Anan to join the High-Level Group of the new UN Alliance of Civilisations.

She is the recipient of multiple awards including the inaugural British Academy Al-Rodhan Prize for Improving Intercultural Relations (2013); named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE, 2015); and the Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences (2017).

Dr. Nader Hashemi
Director, Center for Middle East Studies, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver

Dr. Hashemi is Associate Professor of Middle East and Islamic Politics and Director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver.

He is the author of Islam, Secularism and Liberal Democracy: Toward a Democratic Theory for Muslim Societies, and the co-editor of The People Reloaded:
The Green Movement and the Struggle for Democracy in Iran; The Syria Dilemma, and Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East.