Prof. Dr. Abla Hasan is an American/Syrian Professor of Practice of Arabic Language & Culture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. PhD in Philosophy of Language from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2013, MA in Philosophy as a Fulbright grantee from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2009. Dr. Hasan obtained her BA in Philosophy from Damascus University/Syria in 2000, followed by a Diploma of High Studies from Damascus University in 2001. She is a native speaker of Arabic. She teaches Arabic language and culture at UNL, and she is the Program's Coordinator. Her teaching and research focus on Qur'anic Studies, Qur’anic Hermeneutics, Islamic feminism, and Arabic studies. She has published with Brill, Analize, Ar-Raniry, JIL, Disputatio, Al-Manarah, E-logos and other peer- review international journals. She is the author of: Decoding the Egalitarianism of the Qur'an: Retrieving Lost Voices on Gender (Lexington: 2019), On Pain and Suffering: A Qur’anic Perspective (Lexington: 2022), and: The Qur’anic Dilemma: A Hermeneutical Investigation of al-Khidr (Routledge: 2022).