 Mona Oraby is Associate Professor of Political Science at Howard University. She taught previously at Amherst College and held the Jerome Hall fellowship at the Center for Law, Society, and Culture at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law. Since 2017, Oraby has served as editor of The Immanent Frame, a digital publication of the Social Science Research Council that advances scholarly debate on secularism, religion, and the public sphere. Oraby is the author of Devotion to the Administrative State: Religion and Social Order in Egypt (Princeton University Press, 2024) and coauthor of A Universe of Terms: Religion in Visual Metaphor (Indiana University Press, 2022). Her current project, Fictions of Disgust: Classification and the Human in Contemporary Literature, adapts inductive methods to read literature that fictionalizes historical and sociological phenomena. |
Omar Kasmani is a guest professor at Freie Universität Berlin. Combining cultural anthropology with affect theory and queer-of-color critique, his research is concerned with ideas of intimacy, post-migrant be/longing and queer worldmaking. He is the author of Queer Companions: Religion, Public Intimacy and Saintly Affects in Pakistan (Duke UP 2022) and the editor of Pakistan Desires: Queer Futures Elsewhere (Duke UP 2023). Omar’s current book-project Thin Attachments turns to the self as a public archive of daily un/loves and migrant feeling in Berlin.