His Royal Highness Prince Turki Al Faisal bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud was born on February 15, 1945, in Makkah, Saudi Arabia. HRH began his schooling at the Taif Model School and went on to complete his high school diploma at the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey. HRH then studied at Georgetown University.
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Sami Zubaida is Emeritus Professor of Politics and Sociology, Birkbeck College, University of London. His research interests include Middle East politics, religion and law, nationalism, and food and culture. He was Professeur Invite, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris (summer 2003), and he was Visiting Hauser Global Professor of Law, The Law School, [...]

Suad Joseph completed a BA in Social Science at the State University in New York, Cortland, one year of graduate work in Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh and her PhD in Anthropology at Columbia University.  Most of her anthropological field research has focused on her native Lebanon.  Her early work investigated the politicization of [...]

Engseng Ho is Frederick S. Danzinger Associate Professor of Anthropology and of Social Studies at Harvard University, and Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. He is also currently Professor of Cultural Anthropology, History and Duke Islamic Studies Center. Ho specializes in Global Transnational History, Race and Ethnicity, and Comparative Colonial [...]

Prasenjit Duara seeks not only to enable research in the humanities, social sciences and allied fields, but also to co-ordinate the vast quantum of research in Asian studies spread over different institutions at the University. He is particularly interested in promoting inter-Asian and multi-disciplinary research through comparison, convergence or connectivity and to develop Singapore as [...]