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How to Tackle Antisemitism and Anti-Americanism in the Muslim World. June 22, 2006, 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
A Conversation with Ambassador Akbar Ahmed, Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies, American University. View video and read transcript.
AKBAR AHMED, whom the BBC has described as the leading authority on contemporary Islam, reports on his recent trip through the Muslim world, where he spoke at universities, mosques, and madrassahs and interviewed President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan, as well as a number of clerics, scholars, and others. Ambassador Ahmed undertook the trip on behalf of the Brookings Institution, the Pew Center, and American University.
This program is made possible by the Helena Rubinstein Foundation.
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Akbar Ahmed, the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University in Washington, DC, is the former High Commissioner of Pakistan to Great Britain, and has advised Prince Charles and met with President George W. Bush on Islam. Dr. Ahmed is a distinguished anthropologist, writer, and filmmaker. He has been actively involved in interfaith dialogue and the study of global Islam and its impact on contemporary society for many years. According to the BBC, he is considered “the world’s leading authority on contemporary Islam.”
Dr. Ahmed is the author of many books on contemporary Islam, including Discovering Islam: Making Sense of Muslim History and Society, Postmodernism and Islam: Predicament and Promise, and Islam Today: A Short Introduction to the Muslim World. His most recent book Islam Under Siege: Living Dangerously in a Post-Honor World was the subject of the award-winning “Dialogue” series at the Woodrow Wilson Center. Professor Ahmed also co-edited After Terror: Promoting the Dialogue of Civilizations with Dr. Brian Forst.
He has spent the past several years conducting public dialogues with Judea Pearl, father of slain Wall Street Reporter Daniel Pearl, to promote understanding between the Muslim and Jewish faiths. He has just returned from an extensive trip throughout the Muslim World with his young American assistants as Principal Investigator of a research project sponsored by American University, The Brookings Institution and The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.
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