Stephen Sheehi is Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of Arab Imago: A Social History of Indigenous Photography (2016), Islamophobia: The Ideological Campaign Against Muslims (2011) and Foundations of Modern Arab Identity (2004). He wrote the essay 'Before Painting: Nicola Saig, Painting, and Photographic Seeing' for Arab Art Histories: The Khalid Shoman Collection (2013).