D. Fairchild Ruggles is a Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has co-edited and authored several books including Gardens, Landscape, and Vision in the Palaces of Islamic Spain (2000), and Islamic Gardens and Landscapes (2008).
Sreedevi K. Nair Mehdi teaches English at the N.S.S. College for Women, Thiruvananthapuram. Her book Malayalathinte Kathaakaarikal carries interviews with ten Malayalam women writers, and she has r
Goolam Vahed is Associate Professor of History at the University of KwaZulu Natal. He writes on histories of migration, ethnicity, religion, and identity formation among Indian South Africans.
