April 7, 2009
One Nation experts are available to comment on President Obama’s first speech as president in a Muslim-majority country yesterday. Obama used the speech before the Turkish parliament as an opportunity to reach out to Muslims worldwide, stating that “the United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.” He also stressed the need for broader engagement with the Muslim world, based on mutual respect and mutual interests.
Obama also gave a nod to the contributions of American Muslims to his own country and pointed out that many non-Muslim Americans, like himself, "have Muslims in their family, or have lived in a Muslim-majority country."
One Nation experts available for comment include: Dr. Jen’nan Ghazal Read, Carnegie Scholar and Associate Professor of Sociology at Duke University; Soumaya Khalifa, Executive Director of the Islamic Speakers Bureau of Atlanta and Jana El Horr, International Peacebuilding Fellow at the American Islamic Congress.
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Jen'nan Ghazal Read is an associate professor of sociology at Duke University and is the director of postdoctoral research at the Duke Global Health Institute. She is currently a Carnegie Scholar examining factors that affect Muslim-American political integration, with the goal of understanding how ethnic and religious diversity of Muslim Americans impacts their participation in democratic processes. Dr. Read has been quoted in numerous media outlets, including National Public Radio; has published op-eds in several regional newspapers; and has been interviewed by BBC radio. She has received prestigious awards and grants, including ones from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Russell Sage Foundation, U.S. Census Bureau, and Borchard Foundation. Born in the United States to an American mother and Libyan father, Dr. Read lived in Libya, Egypt and the U.S. intermittently during her youth. She returned to the U.S. permanently in 1987 after the U.S. bombings in Libya in 1986.
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Soumaya Khalifa is the founder and executive director of the Islamic Speakers Bureau of Atlanta (ISBA). Her professional background in human resources, diversity and talent management for several Fortune 100 companies helped in starting and growing the ISB.
Through the leadership of Ms. Khalifa, the Islamic Speakers Bureau of Atlanta volunteers have presented to thousands in metro Atlanta and surrounding areas about Islam and Muslims. The ISB is an affiliate of the Islamic Networks Group in California. Ms. Khalifa was born in Alexandria, Egypt and raised in Texas. She is fluent in English and Arabic. Soumaya is also a member of the FBI's Multi-Cultural Advisory Committee and has appeared on BBC, NPR, AIB, CBS, Fox, PBS, and in the Atlanta Journal Constitution
Location: Atlanta, GA
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Jana El Horr, a Fulbright Scholar from Lebanon, was recently awarded the first-ever Graduate Fellowship from the American Islamic Congress for her extensive work in promoting interfaith and interethnic relations. Of an Iraqi-Lebanese background, El Horr has worked in policy analysis and issue advocacy in the United States and Lebanon, and has delivered many lectures on the impact of Western foreign policy in the Middle East, the pluralistic voice of Islam, and social, political, and developmental challenges in the Middle East region. She has served as a consultant to members of Congress and the public policy community on a wide range of issues. El-Horr is also a founding member of the Center for Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding (CCRP) in Lebanon, an NGO dedicated to promoting sustainable development and peacebuilding through dialogue, cultural exchanges, and youth training seminars. In the past year, she has led the Save Darfur Campaign at the American Islamic Congress as well as partnered with different interfaith and activist groups in the Washington, DC metro area to raise awareness about the current crisis in Sudan. She speaks five languages, including Hebrew and Arabic and is a doctoral candidate at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University.
Location: Washington, DC
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October 24, 2008
Former Sec. of State Colin Powell’s appearance on “Meet the Press” last Sunday (October 19) has sparked a national discussion on the role that religion, race, and ethnicity have played in the presidential election. Citing the service and sacrifice of Cpl. Kareem Khan – an American Muslim soldier killed in 2007 while serving in Iraq -- he strongly urged voters and politician alike to uphold America’s respect for religious pluralism by challenging bigotry and prejudice aimed at minority communities including American Muslims.
Media commentators and newspapers including the New York Time’s Maureen Dowd and Washington Post’s editorial board strongly echoed these sentiments and urged inclusion and respect for all in confronting America’s most pressing challenges.
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Hamza Yusuf
Shaykh Hamza Yusuf founded Zaytuna Institute, which has established an international reputation for presenting a classical picture of Islam in the West and which is dedicated to the revival of traditional study methods and the sciences of Islam. He currently resides in Northern California with his wife and five children.
Location: Berkeley, CA
Contact: Safir Ahmed, Zaytuna Institute
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Farid Senzai
Farid Senzai is a Fellow and Director of Research at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU), focused on researching the Muslim community in the United States. He is also an Assistant Professor in the Political Science department at Santa Clara University. Farid Senzai is frequently requested to comment on U.S. foreign policy and Middle East politics to government officials and on television, radio and print including BBC, PBS, MSNBC, CNN, FOX News, NPR, CSPAN, VOA, Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today.
Location: San Francisco, CA
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Farhana Khera
Farhana Khera leaves her position as Counsel to the United States Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Property Rights to join Muslim Advocates as Executive Director. She also serves as the Executive Director of its sister organization, the National Association of Muslim Lawyers (NAML). Khera has been quoted or profiled by The New York Times, Associated Press, Austin American-Statesman, and San Jose Mercury News, as well as legal, ethnic and religious media.
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March 2, 2009
In the first-ever nationally representative study of a randomly-selected sample of American Muslims, Gallup reveals that Muslim women are among the most educated female religious groups in the U.S., second only to American Jews. Muslim-Americans: A National Portrait includes a number of other noteworthy findings, including that:
- Muslim women are at least as likely as Muslim men to hold a college or postgraduate degree
- Muslims have a greater level of economic gender parity of any group studied
- American Muslim women are as likely as Muslim men to say they hold a professional job
- American Muslim women are equally as likely as men to say they attend mosque at least once a week, which stands in sharp contrast to the trend seen in some predominantly Muslim countries where women are generally less likely than men to report attending a religious service in the last week
One Nation experts available for comment include: Jamillah Karim, author of American Muslim Women: Negotiating Race, Class, and Gender within the Ummah and assistant professor in religion at Spelman College; Farhana Khera, president and executive director of Muslim Advocates, a national legal advocacy organization and Ani Zonneveld, co-founder and board chair of Muslims for Progressive Values.
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Jamillah Karim is Assistant Professor in religion at Spelman College. She obtained her Ph.D. in Islamic Studies at Duke University. She specializes in Islam in America, women and Islam, and race and immigration. She is author of the book American Muslim Women: Negotiating Race, Class, and Gender within the Ummah, which explores relations between African American and South Asian immigrant Muslims in the United States. Jamillah is originally from Atlanta, GA where she was raised in an active Muslim community in association with Imam W.D. Mohammed.
Farhana Khera is the first Executive Director of Muslim Advocates and the National Association of Muslim Lawyers (NAML). Prior to joining Muslim Advocates and NAML in 2005, Ms. Khera was Counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Property Rights. Prior to her service with the Senate Judiciary Committee, Ms. Khera was an associate with Hogan & Hartson, specializing in commercial and administrative litigation. She also worked with Ross, Dixon & Masback, serving as the lead associate on several pro bono employment discrimination cases, which resulted in the firm being honored with the Outstanding Achievement Award by the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs. Ms. Khera was recently honored by the Auburn Theological Seminary with its Lives of Commitment Award.
Ani Zonneveld is a co-founder of Muslims for Progressive Values (MPV) and a songwriter, producer, singer and multi-instrumentalist artist. She has worked with musicians and released work in Malaysia, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, and the United States. Her work in Malaysia resulted in an Album of the Year award at the AIMM, which is the Malaysian equivalent of the Grammy. Ani's released Islamic pop projects Ummah Wake Up and One are available at her website, www.a-n-i.net . Her speaking and singing engagements take her to mosques, churches, synagogues, peace vigils, and panel discussions, and have earned her appearances in several magazine, radio and television features.
October 24, 2008
Former Sec. of State Colin Powell’s appearance on “Meet the Press” last Sunday (October 19) has sparked a national discussion on the role that religion, race, and ethnicity have played in the presidential election. Citing the service and sacrifice of Cpl. Kareem Khan – an American Muslim soldier killed in 2007 while serving in Iraq -- he strongly urged voters and politician alike to uphold America’s respect for religious pluralism by challenging bigotry and prejudice aimed at minority communities including American Muslims.
Media commentators and newspapers including the New York Time’s Maureen Dowd and Washington Post’s editorial board strongly echoed these sentiments and urged inclusion and respect for all in confronting America’s most pressing challenges.
Recommended Experts
Hamza Yusuf
Shaykh Hamza Yusuf founded Zaytuna Institute, which has established an international reputation for presenting a classical picture of Islam in the West and which is dedicated to the revival of traditional study methods and the sciences of Islam. He currently resides in Northern California with his wife and five children.
Location: Berkeley, CA
Contact: Safir Ahmed, Zaytuna Institute
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Farid Senzai
Farid Senzai is a Fellow and Director of Research at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU), focused on researching the Muslim community in the United States. He is also an Assistant Professor in the Political Science department at Santa Clara University. Farid Senzai is frequently requested to comment on U.S. foreign policy and Middle East politics to government officials and on television, radio and print including BBC, PBS, MSNBC, CNN, FOX News, NPR, CSPAN, VOA, Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today.
Location: San Francisco, CA
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Farhana Khera
Farhana Khera leaves her position as Counsel to the United States Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Property Rights to join Muslim Advocates as Executive Director. She also serves as the Executive Director of its sister organization, the National Association of Muslim Lawyers (NAML). Khera has been quoted or profiled by The New York Times, Associated Press, Austin American-Statesman, and San Jose Mercury News, as well as legal, ethnic and religious media.
Location: San Francisco, CA
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September 24, 2008
The U.S.-Muslim Engagement Project has today launched the report, “Changing Course: A New Direction for U.S. Relations with the Muslim World.” The project is an initiative of Search for Common Ground and the Consensus Building Institute and was drafted by a truly bipartisan leadership group whose members include Madeline Albright, former U.S. Secretary of State and Ingrid Mattson, president of the Islamic Society of North America.
To enhance your coverage of this report, which aims to improve relations between the U.S. and Muslim countries, One Nation recommends the following American Muslim spokespersons for comment. These experts are all members of the leadership group that drafted the report. For more information please see U.S.-Muslim Engagement Project.
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Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is Chairman of the Cordoba Initiative, an independent, non-partisan and multi-national project that works with state and non-state actors to improve Muslim-West relations. In this capacity, he provides innovative solutions to those areas where conflict between Islamic and Western communities undermines local and global security. Frequently asked to comment on issues pertaining to Islam and the Muslim world, Imam Feisal has appeared regularly at the Council on Foreign Relations and the World Economic Forum (Davos), and in national and international media such as CNN and BBC. He has been interviewed by and quoted in leading print media, including the New York Times, Time Magazine, Washington Post, The New Yorker, Christian Science Monitor, New York Daily News, Jerusalem Post, Frontline, Foreign Policy, and Associated Press. His publications include the books “Islam: A Search for Meaning,” “Islam: A Sacred Law (What Every Muslim Should Know About the Shariah),” and “What's Right With Islam: A New Vision for Muslims and the West,” which the Christian Science Monitor rated among its five best books of 2004.
Location: New York, NY
Contact: Courtney Erwin, Cordoba Initiative
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Daisy Khan
Daisy Khan is the Executive Director of the American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA) Society. Founded in 1997, ASMA Society is a non-profit religious and educational organization dedicated to building bridges between the American public and American Muslims through activities in culture, arts, academia and current affairs. As wife of Imam Feisal of Masjid al-Farah in New York City, Khan mentors young Muslim women who face challenges of cultural assimilation in America, and counsels Muslims in marital and spiritual issues. Khan leads a monthly discussion forum for young Muslim women and men which encourages them to search for "the highest" knowledge in Islam, assimilate the spiritual dimension of their faith and face challenges posed to them on integrating Islam with modernity.
Location: New York, NY
Contact:Rushda Majeed
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Dalia Mogahed
Dalia Mogahed is a Senior Analyst and Executive Director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, a nonpartisan research center dedicated to providing data-driven analysis on the views of Muslim populations around the world. With John L. Esposito, Ph.D., she is coauthor of the forthcoming book Who Speaks for Islam?: What a Billion Muslims Really Think. Her analysis has appeared in a number of leading publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy Magazine, Harvard International Review, The Journal of Middle East Policy, and many other academic and popular journals. Mogahed leads the analysis of Gallup’s unprecedented survey of more than one billion Muslims worldwide, including Muslims in the West.
Location: Washington, D.C.
Contact: Eric Nielsen
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September 10, 2008
The passing of Imam W. Deen Mohammed on September 9, 2008, in Chicago, IL, has moved the American Muslim community. Imam Mohammed founded the Muslim American Society and in 1992 became the first Muslim to deliver the invocation for the U.S. Senate. One Nation recommends the following experts, all of whom are leading members of the African-American Muslim community.
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Imam Johari Abdul Malik
Imam Johari Abdul Malik lectures on a variety of subjects that motivate
the Muslim community and the community at large to better their
communities. Imam Johari is the Director of Outreach at the Dar Al
Hijrah Islamic Center and former Muslim Chaplain at Howard University
(HU), was the first Muslim officially installed as a chaplain in higher
education at HU, and is the Head of the National Association of Muslim
Chaplains in Higher Education. He serves as the chair of government
relations for the Muslim Alliance in North America. Imam Johari is
known nationally for his fundraising efforts for masjids, schools and
relief and support organizations. He is a founding member of the Muslim
Advocacy Commission of Washington, D.C. He has appeared on NPR, The
O’Reilly Factor (Fox News), and Paula Zahn NOW (CNN).
Location: Washington, D.C.
Contact: Claudia Gunter, Fenton Communications
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Dr. Aminah Beverly McCloud
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Aminah Beverly McCloud is professor of Islamic Studies in the
Department of Religious Studies at DePaul University and the Director
of the Islamic World Studies Program. She is the author of African
American Islam, Questions of Faith, Transnational American Muslims and
American Muslim Women. She is currently working on The Nation of Islam:
A Closer Look, and is the author of over twenty articles on topics
ranging from Islamic Law to Muslim women. She is also a Fulbright
Scholar, consultant on Muslim affairs for the courts, and current
editor of The Journal of Islamic Law and Culture. As of January, 2005
she has run the only undergraduate baccalaureate Islamic World Studies
program. Dr. McCloud has also worked on a number of television projects
on Muslims and is currently working on task forces for the East West
Institute and Chicago Council on Foreign Affairs relating to Islam and
Muslims.
Location: Chicago, IL
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Khadijah Sharif-Drinkard
Khadijah Sharif-Drinkard is an attorney, writer, lecturer and community activist. She has written for The Muslim Journal Newspaper for the past seventeen years where she has covered stories of import for Muslim Americans. Sharif-Drinkard has been featured as a young political activist on several television programs and has been spotlighted in the New York Times on more than one occasion. In 2005, she was a contributing author to the book Living Islam Out Loud: American Muslim Women Speak (Beacon Press) where she writes about her experience as an African American Muslim. In 2006, Sharif-Drinkard served on the United States Delegation to the Iraqi-U.S. Women’s Summit held at the United Nations and also spoke at a conference in Birmingham, UK, about the American Muslim community on behalf of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
Location: Maplewood, NJ
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August 29, 2008
The Muslim holy month of Ramadan begins on Monday, September 1. To enhance your coverage of Muslims and Islam in America, One Nation recommends the following experts.
In addition to the spokespersons described below, we have contacts in major U.S. cities including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, Dallas and San Francisco.
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Najah Bazzy
Najah Bazzy, RN, is a Transcultural Nurse Clinical Specialist and a Diversity Specialist with 25 years experience, specializing in the area of transcultural health care with expertise in Arab and Muslim health care, beliefs, and practices. She is CEO of Diversity Specialists and Transcultural Health Care Solutions and the Executive Director and Founder of Zaman International, a non-profit humanitarian organization. Najah Bazzy has lectured internationally on many topics related to Islam including interfaith dialogue, gender equity and equality, human rights, and medical ethics. She and her family were featured in the PBS documentary “Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet.” She has been featured in newspapers, nursing journals, television, and radio both nationally and internationally.
Location: Canton, MI
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Imam Johari Abdul Malik
Imam Johari Abdul Malik lectures on a variety of subjects that motivate the Muslim community and the community at large to better their communities. Imam Johari is the Director of Outreach at the Dar Al Hijrah Islamic Center and former Muslim Chaplain at Howard University (HU), was the first Muslim officially installed as a chaplain in higher education at HU, and is the Head of the National Association of Muslim Chaplains in Higher Education. He serves as the chair of government relations for the Muslim Alliance in North America. Imam Johari is known nationally for his fundraising efforts for masjids, schools and relief and support organizations. He is a founding member of the Muslim Advocacy Commission of Washington, D.C. He has appeared on NPR, The O’Reilly Factor (Fox News), and Paula Zahn NOW (CNN).
Location: Washington, D.C.
Contact:Claudia Gunter, Fenton Communications
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Dr. Muqtedar Khan
Dr. Muqtedar Khan is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware. He is also the Director of the Islamic Studies Program. He earned his Ph.D. in International Relations, Political Philosophy, and Islamic Political Thought, from Georgetown University in May 2000. He has been the President, Vice President and General Secretary of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists. Dr. Khan frequently comments on BBC, CN International, FOX and VOA TV, Bridges TV, NPR and other radio and TV networks. His political commentaries appear regularly in newspapers in over 20 countries. He has lectured extensively in North America, East Asia, Middle East and Europe. Dr. Khan is from Hyderabad, India. He is the author of several books including American Muslims: Bridging Faith and Freedom (Amana, 2002), Jihad for Jerusalem: Identity and Strategy in International Relations (Praeger, 2004), and Debating Moderate Islam: The Geopolitics of Islam and the West (University of Utah Press, 2007).
Location: Canton, MI
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March 7, 2008
A Gallup poll of more than 50,000 Muslims in 35 nations found that the vast majority want Western democracy and freedoms, but do not want them to be imposed. Most wanted the West to instead focus on changing its negative view of Muslims and Islam. The poll shows that the overwhelming majority of Muslims condemned the attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001 and other subsequent terrorist attacks. It will be published next month as part of a book entitled “Who Speaks For Islam? What A Billion Muslims Really Think” by One Nation Experts John Esposito and Dalia Mogahed. For more information please see Gallup Press.
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Farid Senzai
Farid Senzai is a Fellow and Director of Research at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU), focused on researching the Muslim community in the United States. He is also an Assistant Professor in the Political Science department at Santa Clara University. Senzai has been a research associate at the Brookings Institution where he studied U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East, and a research analyst at the Council of Foreign Relations working on the Muslim Politics project.
Location: San Francisco, CA
Contact:Claudia Gunter, Fenton Communications
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Salam Al-Marayati
Salam Al-Marayati is Executive Director of Muslim Public Affairs Council. He has written extensively on Islam, human rights, democracy, Middle East politics, the Balkan Crisis, and the Transcaucus conflict. Al-Marayati also works as an advisor to several political, civic and academic institutions seeking to understand the role of Islam and Muslims in America and throughout the world.
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Contact:Sai Pradhan, Fenton Communications
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December 17, 2007
On December 18, Muslims from around the world will converge on the city of Mecca, in Saudi Arabia, for the annual week of the “Hajj,” or holy pilgrimage. All Muslims are called upon to make the journey and perform the related rituals once in their lifetime. Several One Nation Experts have been on the pilgrimage and can offer perspectives on the American Muslim experience of this, the fifth pillar of Islam.
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Michael Wolfe
Michael Wolfe is Co-Founder of Unity Productions Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating peace through the media. He is the author of several books of poetry, fiction, history, essays and travel. Wolfe has published three books on Islam: first, a pair of books from Grove Press on the pilgrimage to Mecca: The Hadj (1993), a first-person travel account, and One Thousand Roads to Mecca (1997), an anthology of 10 centuries of travelers writing about the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca.
Location: San Francisco, CA
Contact:Emily Dulcan, Fenton Communications
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Dr. Aminah Beverly McCloud
Dr. Aminah Beverly McCloud is professor of Islamic Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at DePaul University and the Director of the Islamic World Studies Program. She is the author of African American Islam, Questions of Faith, Transnational American Muslims and American Muslim Women. She is currently working on The Nation of Islam: A Closer Look, and is the author of over twenty articles on topics ranging from Islamic Law to Muslim women. She is also a Fulbright Scholar, consultant on Muslim affairs for the courts, and current editor of The Journal of Islamic Law and Culture.
Location: Chicago, IL
Contact:Claudia Gunter, Fenton Communications
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Amir Al-Islam
Amir Al-Islam is currently a Distinguished Lecturer of African American History and Islam and World Civilization at Medgar Evers College (CUNY) in Brooklyn. Through his work in multi-religious organizations, Professor Al-Islam has contributed towards the cooperation and collaboration between people of various religious, ethnic and culturally diverse backgrounds locally, nationally and internationally. During the past two decades, he has participated in international peace and interfaith initiatives such as the UN Conference on Social Development and the Millennium World Peace Summit at the UN.
Location: New York, NY
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November 27, 2007
Hate Hurts America Community and Interfaith Coalition challenged radio host Michael Savage’s bigoted commentary via a press conference today. Urging advertisers nationwide to stop airing commercials on Michael Savage’s syndicated “Savage Nation” program, it called on other faith-based and community groups to join the national campaign against hate rhetoric on talk radio targeting minorities.
Recommended Experts
Salam Al-Marayati
Salam Al-Marayati is the Executive Director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council. For the past 16 years, he has had the opportunity to speak to congregations at community-sponsored events, temples, synagogues, churches, high schools, and college campuses. Deeply involved in interfaith activities, he served as co-chair of the Interfaith Coalition to Heal Los Angeles, which formed as a result of the Los Angeles uprising in the summer of 1992. Salam also works as an advisor to several political, civic and academic institutions seeking to understand the role of Islam and Muslims in America and throughout the world.
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Contact:Claudia Gunter, Fenton Communications
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October 31, 2007
"Islam & the Western World; An Interfaith Dialogue" featuring Shaikh Hamza Yusuf of the Zaytuna Institute and Ambassador J. Douglas Holladay of the Buxton Initiative will take place on November 1st at the U.S. Capitol. Congressman Keith Ellison (MN) will moderate this interfaith discussion with particular focus on issues related to the Christian, Muslim, Jewish and other faith communities living in the U.S. and Europe.
Recommended Experts
Hamza Yusuf
Shaykh Hamza Yusuf founded Zaytuna Institute which has established an international reputation for presenting a classical picture of Islam in the West and which is dedicated to the revival of traditional study methods and the sciences of Islam. He currently resides in Northern California with his wife and five children.
Location: Berkeley, CA
Contact: Safir Ahmed, Zaytuna Institute
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Amir Al-Islam
Amir Al-Islam is currently a Distinguished Lecturer of African American History and Islam and World Civilization at Medgar Evers College (CUNY) in Brooklyn. Through his work in multi-religious organizations, Professor Al-Islam has contributed towards the cooperation and collaboration between people of various religious, ethnic and culturally diverse backgrounds locally, nationally and internationally. During the past two decades, he has participated in international peace and interfaith initiatives such as the UN Conference on Social Development and the Millennium World Peace Summit at the UN.
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Location: New York, NY
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Farhana Khera
Farhana Khera leaves her position as Counsel to the United States Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Property Rights to join Muslim Advocates (www.muslimadvocates.org) as Executive Director. She also serves as the Executive Director of its sister organization, the National Association of Muslim Lawyers (NAML) (www.namlnet.org). In the Senate, Khera worked for six years for Senator Russell D. Feingold (D-WI), the chairman of the Constitution Subcommittee.
Location: San Francisco, CA
Contact: Claudia Gunter, Fenton Communications
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October 4, 2007
THE 99 is the world's first superhero project based on Islamic culture and history. This internationally acclaimed comic book series makes its American debut on October 17. One Nation’s cultural experts obtained copies in advance.
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Hamza Yusuf
Shaykh Hamza Yusuf founded Zaytuna Institute which has established an international reputation for presenting a classical picture of Islam in the West and which is dedicated to the revival of traditional study methods and the sciences of Islam. He currently resides in Northern California with his wife and five children.
Location: Berkeley, CA
Contact: Safir Ahmed, Zaytuna Institute
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Firas Ahmad
Firas Ahmad is Deputy Editor of Islamica Magazine. Founded in 1992, Islamica is widely considered the foremost popular magazine of Muslim thought, opinion, literature and analysis. He writes a regular column for Islamica titled “Truthiness” and has written on a broad range of issues including the media, public policy, foreign policy, politics, religion, finance, international development and culture.
Location: Cambridge, MA
Contact: Claudia Gunter, Fenton Communications
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Khadijah Sharif-Drinkard
Khadijah Sharif-Drinkard is an attorney, writer, lecturer and community activist. In 1992, she was chosen by the United Nations as a youth ambassador to Russia. Until recently, Sharif-Drinkard served as Vice President, Senior Counsel for MTV Networks where she specialized in entertainment law.
Location: Maplewood, NJ
Contact: Claudia Gunter, Fenton Communications
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September 20, 2007
New sitcom premiering October 1 portrays a Pakistani Muslim exchange student at a Wisconsin high school. One Nation's cultural experts obtained advance copies.
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Michael Wolfe
Michael Wolfe is Co-Founder of Unity Productions Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating peace through the media. He edited a collection of essays by American Muslims called Taking Back Islam: American Muslims Reclaim Their Faith.
Location: San Franciso, CA
Contact: Claudia Gunter, Fenton Communications
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Ani Zonneveld
Ani Zonneveld is a songwriter, singer and the co-founder and President of Muslims for Progressive Values. Zonneveld has been featured on NPR and BBC’s “The Globe.”
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Contact: Ani Zonneveld;
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Mona Eltahawy
Mona Eltahawy is an award-winning New York-based journalist and commentator and an international lecturer on Arab and Muslim issues.
Location: New York, NY
Contact: Mona Eltahawy
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