JOURNAL OF SOUTH ASIAN AND MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor
Managing Editor
Editor Emeritus
Kail Ellis, OSA, PhD, Villanova University
Editorial Board
Ada Petiwala, American University of Beirut
Adam Hanaieh, University of Exeter
Adeem Suhail, Franklin and Marshall
Ahmed Morsy, Arab Political Science Network
Ameem Lutfi, Lahore University of Management Sciences
Amal Ghazal, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies
Andrea Wright, William and Mary
Andrew Stinson, American Political Science Association
Anusha Hariharan, Villanova University
Arang Keshavarzian, New York University
Diana Allan, McGill University
Elizabeth Kolsky, Villanova University
Emrah Yıldız, Northwestern University
Esmat Elhalaby, University of Toronto
Golnar Nikpour, Dartmouth College
Hafsa Kajwal, Lafayette College
Johan Mathew, Rutgers University
Marya Hannun, University of Exeter
Michael Bishku, Augusta University
Nadine Sika, American University of Cairo
Rishad Choudhury, Oberlin
Saliba Sarsar, Monmouth University
Sonal Sharma, Tufts University
Wilson Jacob, Concordia University
Zainab Saleh, Haverford College
Zaynab el-Bernoussi, The Africa Institute
Founding Editor
The Journal was established in 1976 by the late Hafeez Malik, PhD, professor of Political Science at Villanova University.
The late Hafeez Malik, PhD, was a professor of Political Science at Villanova University. Before joining the Villanova University faculty in 1961, he was an accredited White House correspondent for the Pakistan Press from 1960 to 1961. From 1976 until his passing in 2021, he was Editor of the Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. In 1973, he established the American Institute of Pakistan Studies and served as its director for 15 years.
In the 1970s and 80s, Dr. Malik was awarded substantial funds by the U.S. Department of Education to conduct three seminars in 1976, 1978 and 1981 in Pakistan for U.S. social science college faculty. Each delegation included 15 to 18 members. From 1964 to 2000, Dr. Malik organized three major international seminars on Pakistan and the superpower relations in Bellagio, Italy (1964), Ufa in Bashkortostan (1988), and Kazan in Tatarstan (1990) as well as twelve seminars at Villanova University. Four seminars were organized in the Institute of Oriental Studies in Moscow.
Upon the request of the State Department, Dr. Malik visited Russia on June 4 – 20, 2002 to explain U.S. foreign policy toward the Muslims in general and the Muslim republics in particular, especially those of Tatarstan and Bashkortostan within the Russian Federation. He was also a visiting professor at the U.S. Foreign Service Institute of the State Department from 1961 to 1963, and helped train U.S. diplomats assigned to serve in South Asia from 1966 to 1995.
In 1992, Dr. Malik, along with Dr. Sakhawat Hussein, founded the Pakistan American Congress, and then served as the Chairman of its Advisory Council. In 1994, in cooperation with Patricia Coffee, he founded the World Affairs Council of Greater Valley Forge and served on its Advisory Council.
Dr. Malik’s areas of specialization included U.S. foreign policy for Russia and Central Asia, South Asia and the Middle East. He authored, edited or translated 20 books, which were published in the United States, Britain and Pakistan. His travels took him to twenty-five countries in Asia, Europe and the Middle East, where he lectured in some of their well-known universities.