493Armando Salvatore is a Heisenberg Fellow at Humboldt University,
Berlin, and directs the MA Program in Languages, History and Cultures
of the Mediterranean and the Islamic World, Oriental Studies University,
Naples, where he teaches Sociology of Culture and Communication. He
works on the sociological, political and anthropological dimensions of
religious traditions and secular formations in historical and compara-
tive perspective, by laying a particular emphasis on phenomena related
to Islam within global civil society, new media and the public sphere.
Salvatore’s most recent books (authored, edited, and co-edited) are
Islam and Modernity: Key Issues and Debates (2009), The Public Sphere:
Liberal Modernity, Catholicism, Islam (2007, pb 2010), Islam in Process:
Historical and Civilizational Perspectives (2006), Religion, Social Practice,
and Contested Hegemonies (2005) and Public Islam and the Common Good
(2004, pb 2007).
Seteney Shami is an anthropologist and program director at the Social
Science Research Council. She obtained her BA from the American
University of Beirut and her MA and PhD from U.C. Berkeley. She writes
on ethnicity, nationalism, diasporas and urban cultures. She has under-
taken fieldwork in Jordan, Turkey and the North Caucasus. Recent publi-
cations include “Amman is Not a City: Middle Eastern Cities in Question,”
in Urban Imaginaries: Locating the Modern City, edited by A. Çınar and
T. Bender (University of Minnesota Press, 2007), and “Aqalliyya/Minority
in Modern Egyptian Discourse,” in Words in Motion: Towards a Global
Lexicon, edited by C. Gluck and A. Tsing (Duke University Press, 2009).
Fawwaz Traboulsi received his doctorate in history from the Université
de Paris VIII and is currently associate professor of political science and
history at the Lebanese American University, Beirut-Lebanon. He has
written on history, Arab politics, social movements, political philosophy,
folklore and art. Recent publications include The Stranger, the Treasure
and the Miracle (A Reading in the Musical Theatre of the Rahbani
Brothers and the Diva Fayrouz, 2006) and A History of Modern Lebanon
(Pluto Books, 2007).