Hatem Bazian

[:en]Dr. Hatem Bazian is a lecturer in the Departments of Near Eastern and Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies, Editor-in-Chief of the Islamophobia Studies Journal and Director of the Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project at UC Berkeley Center for Race and Gender at the University of California, Berkeley.  Dr. Bazian a co-founder of Zaytuna College,…

Stephen Small

[:en]Prof. Stephen Small has taught in the Department of African American Studies since 1994. He received his B.A. (honours) in Economics and Sociology from the University of Kent at Canterbury, his MS.C in Social Sciences, from the University of Bristol (both in the UK), and his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley….

Asma Lamrabet

[:en]Asma Lamrabet is trained in medicine and worked as a volunteer doctor in Spain and Latin America. In 1995 she started working in mainly Chile and Mexico for eight. There she came into contact with Liberation Theology, which caused her to examine her own religion. From 2004 until 2007, she returned to Morocco, where she…

Sandew Hira

[:en]Sandew Hira, pen-name of Dew Baboeram, is an independent scholar and activist. He studied economics at the Erasmus  University Rotterdam. In 1982 he published his first book on the history of the struggle against colonialism in Suriname from 1630-1940. Since then he has published many books and numerous articles on history and race relations. Hira is director of the International Institute for Scientific Research…

Sebieren Hassenmahomed

[:en]Sebieren Hassenmahomed is columnist for Sarnámihuis, the online community for Hindustani identity. She was born and raised on Kasabaholo in Suriname. She moved to the Netherlands in 1971. There she lived in Baarn where she was trained as a nurse and worked in healthcare. In 1981 she went back to Suriname and worked in the country’s Psychiatric…

Radjinder Bhagwanbali

[:en]Dr. Radjinder Bhagwanbali is a historian and sociologist. He graduated from the University of Nijmegen in 1996. His dissertation is titled: The recruitment and selection of laborers among the indentured labor system in India for the colony of Suriname, 1873-1916. Bhagwanbali has done extensive archival research on the history of Hindustani indentured labor in the…