Islam in America: Challenges and Opportunities

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• Professor Akbar Ahmed (American University, CMJR)
• Thursday 08 November 2012, 17:00-19:00
• Garden Room, Library Building, St. Edmunds College.

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On the 8th November CMJR Visiting Fellow Professor Akbar Ahmed will deliver a CMJR Highlight lecture entitled “Islam in America: Challenges and Opportunities”. The author of Journey into America; the Challenge of Islam, Professor Akbar Ahmed has taught at Princeton, Harvard, and Cambridge University and has been called “the world’s leading authority on contemporary Islam” by the BBC . He has advised myriad US agencies and organizations on Islam and foreign policy and is the current Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University in Washington DC; the First Distinguished Chair of Middle East and Islamic Studies at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis; and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.

This talk is part of the Woolf Institute Highlights series.

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