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American University professor Akbar Ahmed talked about his book, The Thistle and the Drone: How America’s War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Islam. He also talked about the debate o…

Ms. Scroggins uses the lives of two well-known Muslim women to explore two distinct perspectives on the war on terror and Islamic fundamentalists. Somali-born Ayaan Hirsi Ali fights against …

Akbar Ahmed and his team of American assistants visited Muslim communities in 75 towns and cities in the U.S. to find out the views of people there on various topics including religion, terr…

Bernard Lewis, along with author and former Pakistani Ambassador to England, Akbar Ahmed, held a discussion on the "Islamic World". They discussed the role of Islam and Islamic states, from …

Mark Siegel talked about former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s book Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West, published by Harper. Mark Siegel, Benazir Bhutto’s longtime fri…

Akbar Ahmed talked about his book Journey into Islam: The Crisis of Globalization, published by Brookings Institution Press. Following the September 11 terrorist attacks, Professor Ahmed tra…

Akbar Ahmed, the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University, was interviewed about Islamic fundamentalism, why he believes some terrorists act in the name of Islam, and his …

Asra Nomani discussed her book Standing Alone in Mecca: An American Woman’s Struggle for the Soul of Islam, published by HarperSanFrancisco. She discussed her campaign against sexism in her…

Participants spoke to students about religious tolerance, the quality and importance of interfaith dialog, levels of religious adherence in the U.S, and the value of religious understanding …

At an event hosted by The Close Up Foundation, guests discussed efforts to promote understanding between Muslims and Jews. Professor Judea Pearl talked about the murder of his son, Daniel, b…

Professor Ahmed discussed his book Resistance and Control in Pakistan, originally published in Great Britain and recently released in the United States by Routledge. He examined the internal…

Professor Akbar Ahmed talked about his book, Islam Under Siege: Living Dangerously in a Post-Honour World, published by Polity/Blackwell. He examined the traditional and contemporary events …

Professor Akbar Ahmed, the author of Islam Under Seige, and Joyce Davis, the author of Martyrs: Innocence, Violence, Vengeance, and Despair in the Middle East, talked about Islam and its cha…

As part of the 39th annual convention for the Islamic Society of North America, panelists talked about the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and to what extent they could attributed to U.…

In this The Close Up Foundation program participants talked to students about U.S. relations with Muslim countries and future political and cultural cooperation with Islamic peoples. Among t…

Akbar Ahmed Chair of Islamic Studies at American University participated in the Washington Journal program where he talked about the news of the day. He also took viewers phone calls.