Mahmoud Ayoub is a faculty associate in Islam and Christian-Muslim relations at the Duncan Black Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary in Connecticut. A native of South Lebanon, he has taught at Temple University, the Pacific School of Religion, San Diego State University, the University of Toronto, and McGill University. Since the spring of 1999, he has been a visiting professor at the University of Balamand in Lebanon.