Berkley Center

Ryann Craig is special assistant to the vice president for mission and ministry and director of academic initiatives in Georgetown University's Office of Mission and Ministry. From October 2019 through December 2023 she was the director of student programs and an assistant research professor at the Berkley Center, as well as a faculty fellow at the Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching and Service at Georgetown University. Before joining the Berkley Center, she worked in academic support and student advising as assistant director of academic support at the Catholic University of America. She recently served as a copy editor for the International Qurʾānic Studies Association’s journal and monograph series (2016-2018) and has been involved in a number of religious minority cultural heritage preservation initiatives in the United States, Germany, and Israel/Palestine. Craig completed her Ph.D. (Catholic University of America) on the use of Quranic proof texts by medieval Christian Arabic and Syriac authors while in residence as a doctoral fellow at the Tantur Ecumenical Institute in Jerusalem. She is co-editor with Vasile-Octavian Mihoc of A Contested Coexistence: Insights in Arabic Christianity from Theology to Migration (Harrassowitz, 2020).

Taha Kaleem (SFS'22) graduated from Georgetown University in Qatar in 2022 with a major in international politics and a minor in economics. Taha was the 2021 Berkley Center-Pulitzer Center international reporting fellow, and he studied Sufi shrines and conflict resolution in Kashmir. Taha was an active part of the Georgetown community, representing the Georgetown Debating Union at the World Debating Championship 2019 in Thailand. He also started and was a part of numerous student clubs at GU-Q. Taha aspires to study religion and public life. 

Zeba Warsi is an award-winning broadcast journalist from India, currently based in New York. Her work focuses on immigration, women, and human rights. For the past eight years, she has closely covered the rise of populist nationalism, religious violence, hate crimes, social movements, and sexual violence in India, based out of New Delhi, as a special correspondent with CNN-News18, CNN's affiliate in India.