Karin van Nieuwkerk is an anthropologist and professor of contemporary Islam in Europe and the Middle East at the Radboud University Nijmegen. Her many books include Women Embracing Islam: Gender and Conversion in the West, Performing Piety: Singers and Actors in Egypt's Islamic Revival, and Islam and Popular Culture. Mark LeVine is a professor of modern Middle Eastern history at ... Read morethe University of California, Irvine, and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University in Sweden. Martin Stokes is King Edward Professor of Music at King's College, London. Show Less