The American Civil Liberties Union’s has a Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief that tracks legal violations in this area.

Therese Saliba teaches international feminism at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash.

Andrew Shryock is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and is jointly affiliated with the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies. He has written about Arab Detroit post-9/11.

Loukia K. Sarroub, an associate professor of education at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, writes about literacy among American and Iraqi children.

Asifa Quraishi-Landes is associate professor of law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is an expert on U.S. and Islamic law.

Mohja Kahf is a poet and an associate professor of literature at the University of Arkansas. She writes about gender issues and Arab-American women.

Ebrahim Moosa is a professor of Islamic studies at Duke University. He has written about Muslim law and ethics.

Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia directs the Center for Immigrants’ Rights at Pennsylvania State University’s Dickinson School of Law.

Edward Alden, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, is the former Washington bureau chief of the Financial Times. His latest book, The Closing of the American Border: Terrorism, Immigration and Security Since 9/11, examines U.S. visa and border policies in the wake of 9/11.