Contributors
Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad
Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad is a Doctoral Candidate in Computer Science. His research is in Computational Computational Social Science and his thesis focuses on Computational Models of Trust in MMOs. He has been fascinated by Science Fiction since his childhood and greatly appreciates the use of Science Fiction to illuminate relationship amongst people and the relationship between technology and man. He is also an aspiring Artist. He also edited the first anthology of short Science Fiction stories on Islam and Science Fiction in 2008 with Ahmed A. Khan titled “A Mosque Amongst the Stars.” He started this website in 2005 to address a glaring gap in literature on this subject.
e-mail: mahmad@cs.umn.edu
Website: http://www.aurumahmad.com
Rebecca Hankins
Rebecca Hankins is an Associate Professor, certified archivist/librarian at Texas A&M University, College Station TX. Her previous employment included 12 years as senior archivist at The Amistad Research Center at Tulane University in New Orleans, the premier research repository on Africana historical documentation, and two years as Assistant Librarian at University of Arizona Library, Special Collection; Tucson, Arizona. Her expertise includes building collections and scholarly resources for the study of the African Diaspora, Race & Ethnic Studies, and Arabic Language and Culture. She has published in library and archival peer-reviewed journals and her latest publication is on Islamic science fiction and fantasy in the international journal Foundation: The International of Review of Science Fiction out of the UK. She joined this project in 2010.
e-mail: rhankins@tamu.edu
Website: http://library.tamu.edu/directory/rhankins
Sofia Samatar
Sofia Samatar is a PhD student in African Languages and Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she specializes in twentieth-century Egyptian and Sudanese literatures. Her poetry has appeared in Stone Telling, and her debut novel, A Stranger in Olondria, is forthcoming from Small Beer Press in 2012. She blogs about books and other wonders at sofiasamatar.blogspot.com. She joined the project in 2012.
e-mail: sofiasamatar@gmail.com
Website: http://sofiasamatar.blogspot.com
