Sally Howell is Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan-Dearborn and Director of the Center for Arab American Studies. Her books include Citizenship and Crisis: Arab Detroit After 9/11, Arab Detroit 9/11: Life in the Terror Decade, and Old Islam in Detroit: Rediscovering the Muslim American Past. Old Islam in Detroit received the 2015 Arab American Book Award. Howell is currently a curator for the Halal Metropolis exhibition series exploring the politics and aesthetics of Muslim visibility in Detroit.