Berkley Center

Amineh Hoti is the executive director of the Centre for Dialogue and Action. She was the co-founder of the first Centre for the Study of Muslim-Jewish Relations in Cambridge and of Dialogue and Action at Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. She has conducted ethnographic field research and lectured across Europe, America, and the Muslim world. She has also worked on designing innovative courses and peacebuilding textbooks for students and teacher training in the United Kingdom and in Pakistan. She wrote Sorrow and Joy among Muslim Women: The Pukhtuns of Northern Pakistan (2008), which was nominated for the 2007 Kiriyama Prize. Hoti was a participant in the International Higher Education Interfaith Leadership Forum. She received her Ph.D. in social anthropology from the University of Cambridge.