Jeff is a native New Yorker and has a Ph.D. in English. He also holds degrees in history and political science. Besides his scholarship and activism, he is the inventor of patent-pending voting technology. His writing alternates between British and American spelling in the hope that others will share his deeply ambivalent relationship to standardization.

Email: jeffstrabone [preposition] gmail

• Post-Shame
• Klepto-Capitalism, and How to Fight It
• What Kind of Space Is Cyberspace?
• Kiarostami’s ‘Shirin’: watching a movie about watching a movie
• Why We Need Harold Hongju Koh on the Supreme Court
• Can you hear me, Major Tom?
• Renaissance of the Repressed
• The Jennifer Aniston in All of Us

Simon worked for development NGOs for several years before selling his soul to the United Nations, for which he currently manages a small office in the Gaza Strip. He has a Master’s degree in Policy Analysis, having first pretended to study English at Oxford. Like every other idiot who did so, he suspects he has a great book in him; the woeful state of his Arabic after six years in the Middle East testifies that he’s probably too lazy to find out. Simon enjoys singing, shooting and carousing. Happily he is married to Aurelie.

Email: bobboas [at] hotmail [dot] com

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Feisal Naqvi is a partner at the firm of Bhandari, Naqvi & Riaz based in Lahore, Pakistan. He studied Islamic history at Princeton before going on to study law at Yale. Other pieces written by him are archived at www.monsoonfrog.wordpress.com.

Email: laalshah [at] gmail.com

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Elatia Harris

Elatia Harris is a personal chef and cooking teacher in Cambridge, Massachusettes.

Website: http://www.lucysmomcuisine.com

Email: elatia [at] lucysmomcuisine.com

• Knifers
• Brian D’Amato: Mayan Sci-Fi and the Tribe of True — Not Aspirant — Nerds
• James Ensor: Keepin’ It Surreal
• Extreme Cases: An Interview with Affinity Konar
• Giambattista Della Porta of Naples: How to Turn a Woman Green
• How Never to Write about Your Animals
• Mathis the Painter
• Chef of the North: An Interview with Karen Peters
• Saffron Mother, Part III
• Alix & FUEL: A Conversation about Crime
• Elise & Me: A Tale of Extreme Optical Seduction
• Saffron Mother, Part II
• Tosca’s Birthday
• Valentine’s Day on 3QD: The Catch
• 3QD Valentine’s Day Challenge
• My Widower and Proust
• Showing Skin
• Your Personal Truffle, and How To Treat It When You Get It Home
• The Bibliodyssey Book: An Interview with Paul K
• A Painter Crossing the Digital Divide
• My Mother’s Secret Travel Diaries
• Building Sound
• White Girl in the Promised Land
• Royal De Luxe II: Face-Off in Reykjavik
• Neither of the East, nor of the West: Bestseller in Pakistan
• Saffron Mother
• Royal De Luxe: The Saga of the Giants
• Shrooming in Late Capitalism: The Way of the Truffle

Kevin Scott Baldwin is an Associate Professor of Biology at Monmouth College in Western Illinois, where he lives with his wife and three children. He has written previously for The Evolutionary Review.

Email: kbaldwin [at] monm.edu

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Maniza Naqvi writes fiction. Her novels are: Mass Transit (OUP, Karachi, 1998); On Air (OUP, Karachi, 2000); Stay With Me (SAMA, Karachi 2004; Tara Press, India 2005); A Matter of Detail (SAMA, 2008; Tara Press, 2008); Sarajevo Saturdays (SAMA, 2009). Her short story “An Impossible Shade of Home Brew” is included in the anthology And then the World Changed (Feminst Press, 2008). Her short story “A Brief Acquaintaince” is included in Neither Night Nor Day (Harper Collins, 2007).

Email: manizanaqvi195 [at] hotmail.com

List of writings at 3QD, in reverse chronological order:

• Imagining Lyari Through Akhtar Soomro
• Losing the Plot: Habits of the Heart
• Losing the Plot: Hope
• That Sara Aziz!
• At The End of a Match
• Losing the Plot: (Stanley’s Girl)
• Losing the Plot: (Sovereign Debt)
• Losing The Plot (Dreaming Dulles)
• Losing the Plot (The Hotel)
• Losing The Plot
• The Art of Resistance: Under Siege
• Amber
• X-Epsilon
• Under the sealed sky: Drones
• The DMV
• The Leftist and The Leader
• Bogomil

Hasan Altaf, a graduate of New York University and Johns Hopkins University, is a writer currently based in Washington, DC.

Email: hasan.altaf [at] gmail.com

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Tom Jacobs is an assistant professor of English at the New York Institute of Technology, where he teaches a range of classes in writing and literature. He received a Ph.D from New York University in American Literature and lives in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

Email: tjacob02 [at] nyit.edu

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• Spider Holes & Spider Goats: Tuning in the (White) Noises from the Margins
• Bathroom Pastoralism, or, The Anecdote of the Can

Haider is a Pakistani. An undergraduate. At Yale. All these things baffle him. He spends most of his time trying to cope with his bafflement at these and other things. He copes with it by talking to things and people around him and taking various colorful intoxicants. When sane, Haider enjoys South Asian History, English Literature and Film because they allow him to read a lot of books, watch a lot of movies and then act painfully pretentious about them. He, also, tries very hard not to eat cute furry animals and his dream is to obliterate their suffering. That is not his only dream though. Since having spent two years in the countryside in Wales he wants to live atop a mountain with lots of sheep and secretly wants his cottage to become a pilgrimage site after he dies.

Email: hshahbaz [at] gmail.com

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Alyssa Pelish has studied modernist literature and neuroscience, is an itinerant instructor of literature and writing, a frequent reviewer for Rain Taxi, and is currently at work on a novel.

Email: alyssa.pelish [at] gmail.com

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Azra was born in Karachi, Pakistan, and is an oncologist and research scientist by profession. She lives in Manhattan with her daughter Sheherzad. In these scoundrel times, she is convinced that the best way “to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world” is by promoting and publicizing the achievements of humanity in science, art, and literature. She is specially moved by fine poetry.

Email: araza [at] aptiumoncology [dot] com

List of writings at 3QD, in reverse chronological order:

• The Nobleness of Life is to do Thus
• Syed Ali Raza, 1913-2005
• Emily Post and Laura Claridge: Two Women Possessing the Genius of Etiquette
• Qurratulain Hyder (Aini Apa), 1927-2007
• Stephen Wolfram’s New Kind of Science
• Ian McEwan, Medical Ethics and Plagiarism
• Harvey David Preisler
• Thalidomide and Cancer
• Germs Are Us
• Sand Piles and Cancer
• Reductionist vs. Pluralist Views of Cancer
• Spicing Cancer Treatment
• The War on Cancer

Jenny White is an associate professor of social anthropology at Boston University and author of the prize-winning Islamist Mobilization in Turkey (University of Washington) and Money Makes Us Relatives: Women’s Labor in Urban Turkey (Routledge). She also writes mystery/thrillers set in nineteenth-century Istanbul: The Sultan’s Seal (W. W. Norton, 2006), The Abyssinian Proof (2008), and The Winter Thief (2010). The Sultan’s Seal was translated into fourteen languages and shortlisted for the 2006 Ellis Peters Historical Crime Award. Jenny grew up in Germany and New York, spent eight years in Turkey, and now lives in the Boston area. She also writes a blog about contemporary Turkey: http://kamilpasha.com.

Email: jennywhit [at] gmail.com

Website: http://jennywhite.net

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Dave Maier spent many years as a radio DJ, but after even public radio turned hostile to esoteric music, he left to study philosophy at Columbia. Now, after earning a Ph. D. in the subject, he spends far too much time reading and not nearly enough time writing. He blogs, or has blogged, at duckrabbit.blogspot.com, where at least there is some good stuff in the archives.

Email: duck1887 [at] hotmail.com

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Tauriq Moosa is contributing editor to Secular Humanist Bulletin, the newsletter for the Council for Secular Humanism. He is also a contributor to Skeptic magazine and Butterfliesandwheels.com. He has been published and translated for a number of European humanist organisations, including the Swedish Humanist Association and the Polish Rationalist Association. He has appeared on radio and local media. He obtained a B.Soc.Sci from the University of Cape Town. He is currently doing a Masters in Philosophy, specialising in Bioethics, at the Centre for Applied Ethics, Stellenbosch University.

Email: tauriq.moosa [at] fsi.org.za

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Robert P. Baird recently completed a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago and is the former editor of Chicago Review. His work has appeared in Poetry, Narrative, Slate, Bookforum, and the New York Observer. Find links to his writing at robertpbaird.com or follow him on Twitter @bobbybaird. He lives in Kampala, Uganda.

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• What is Julian Assange Up To?

Sughra grew up in Karachi, Pakistan, along with siblings Abbas and Azra, and several others. She studied fine arts as an undergraduate, later shifting gears to become a doctor of medicine, specializing in diagnostic radiology. Sughra lives in Boston, Massachusetts, working and teaching at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She feels most excited in a world of images, invention, art and music; and inspite of Fenway Park floodlights lighting up the sky in her windows, she remains oblivious to the Red Sox battling the Yankees a stone’s throw away.

Email: sraza1 [at] partners.org