Zareena Grewal is an assistant professor in the departments of American Studies and Religious Studies and the Program in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration at Yale University. She is the author of numerous articles and chapters on the intersections of race and religion in American Muslim communities and her forthcoming book explores the global religious networks that connect U.S. mosques to the intellectual centers of the Middle East. She has also produced and directed two documentary films for television, "By the Dawn's Early Light: Chris Jackson's Journey to Islam" (2004) and "Swahili Fighting Words" (2010).