Steering Committee

Ghaith al-Omari
Senior Fellow
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Abdullah Antepli
Imam & Associate Professor of Practice, Sanford School of Public Policy
& Divinity School, Duke University

Sercan Canbolat, Ph.D.
Director, Abrahamic Programs
Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Global Affairs
University of Connecticut

Zaid Eyadat, Ph.D. (Co-Chair)
Director of the Center for Strategic Studies
Professor of Political Science, University of Jordan

Ilham Idrissi
Ph.D. Candidate, Islamic Studies
Emory University

Kathryn Libal, Ph.D.
Director, Human Rights Institute
Associate Professor of Social Work & Human Rights
University of Connecticut

Avinoam Patt, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Judaic Studies & Contemporary Jewish Life &
Doris & Simon Konover Chair in Judaic Studies
University of Connecticut

Jeremy Pressman, Ph.D.
Director, Middle East Studies &
Professor of Political Science, University of Connecticut

Gregory E. Sterling, Ph.D.
Dean of Yale Divinity School
The Reverend Henry L. Slack Dean and
Lillian Claus Professor of New Testament, Yale University

Daniel Weiner, Ph.D. (Co-Chair)
Vice President for Global Affairs &
Professor of Geography, University of Connecticut