Abdullah ElKhatib
Professor of Exegesis and Quranic Studies, College of Sharia and Islamic Studies, Qatar University
Ali Aghaei
Dr. Ali Aghaei is a research fellow at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) and the head of IranKoran project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in Germany.
Annabel Teh Gallop
Dr. Annabel Teh Gallop is head of the Southeast Asia section at the British Library in London. Her main research interests are in Malay manuscripts, letters, documents and seals, and the art of the Qur’an across the Indian Ocean world.
Arianna D’ottone Rambach
Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at Sapienza University of Rome, where she teaches Arabic and Arabic Palaeography, Codicology and Numismatics. Her main field of research is Arabic written culture, from papyri and manuscripts to coins and inscriptions.
Elaine Wright
Elaine Wright worked as Curator of the Islamic Collections at the Chester Beatty Library from 1998 to 2017, where she was responsible for the care, management and public display of the Library’s more than 6,000 Islamic manuscripts and single-page paintings and calligraphies.
Karen Whitehair
Karen Whitehair has worked in the museum field for over thirty years in organizations as varied as the National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution, and various historic sites in and around the Washington, DC region. Her work has focused predominately on museum collections management. She is currently working as an independent museum consultant, writer, and historian.
Magdalen M. Connolly
Magdalen M. Connolly is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge, where she researches written linguistic features of Jewish, Muslim, and Christian folktales from the early modern period. Magdalen will soon begin a Humboldt Research Fellowship at Ludwig-Maximilians University’s Institute for Near and Middle Eastern Studies.
Nick Posegay
Nick Posegay is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge, where he researches interfaith exchange in the intellectual history of Middle Eastern languages. He is also a Research Associate at the Cambridge University Library’s Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit and the author of Points of Contact: The Shared Intellectual History of Vocalisation in Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew.
