Dr. Su’ad Abdul Khabeer @doctasuad is a scholar, artist, and activist based in Michigan, where she is an associate professor at the University of Michigan. She teaches American Culture and Arab and Muslim American Studies at the university. Her work, her art, and her teaching explore the intersection of popular art and race. Su’ad studied at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown, received her PhD from Princeton, and a diploma in Islamic Studies at the Institute of Abu Nour University in Damascus. In addition to her teaching and her art, she has also published a number of academic pieces, including her latest, Muslim Cool: Race, Religion and Hip Hop in the United States - an ethnography that examines intersecting ideas of Muslimness and Blackness in the United States. The book is accompanied by a performance ethnography Sampled: Beats of Muslim Life, a one woman solo performance. Su’ad has written for the The Root, Washington Post, the Atlantic, Ebony Magazine, and Huffington Post. She was feature on CNN’s 25 influential Muslims in 2018 and in 2019 received was a Soros Equality Fellow.