Arsalan Iftikhar
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Arsalan Iftikhar on The Doha Debates on BBC World Television in March 2008
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September 1, 1977 Norfolk, Virginia, United States |
| Alma mater | Washington University |
| Occupation | Lawyer, global media commentator, author |
Arsalan Iftikhar (born September 1, 1977, Norfolk, Virginia, United States) is an American human rights lawyer, global media commentator and author of the book SCAPEGOATS: How Islamophobia Helps Our Enemies & Threatens Our Freedoms which President Jimmy Carter called “an important book that shows Islamophobia must be addressed urgently.”
Arsalan is the founder of TheMuslimGuy.com and he also serves as senior editor for The Islamic Monthly magazine. He has been an adjunct professor of religious studies at DePaul University and he is also a member of the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) and Reporters Sans Frontières (Reporters Without Borders). He also won the 2013 Distinguished Young Alumni Award from Washington University School of Law in St. Louis.
In May 2011, Arsalan was named one of the top 12 Muslim Twitter accounts in the world by The Huffington Post, and he was also a featured interview for a December 2012 ABC News documentary called "Back to the Beginning" by Christiane Amanpour, on the shared origins of the major world religions today.
Arsalan Iftikhar is an international human rights lawyer of Pakistani descent and founder of TheMuslimGuy.com and Senior Editor for The Islamic Monthly magazine.
For over seven years, Arsalan was a regular weekly contributor on the Barbershop segment for the National Public Radio (NPR) show Tell Me More with Michel Martin. Arsalan was also the former National Legal Director of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) during the George W. Bush administration. Arsalan also currently works as a consultant at Cook Ross, Inc, a Washington DC consulting firm specializing in organizational development, leadership development, and diversity & inclusion issues.
Arsalan's interviews, commentaries and analyses have regularly appeared in virtually every major media outlet in the world including: CNN, BBC World News, Al-Jazeera English, The TODAY Show, National Public Radio (NPR), FOX News Channel, MSNBC, Associated Press, C-SPAN, Voice of America (VOA), Agence France-Presse (AFP), USA TODAY, NBC Nightly News, The Washington Post, ABC World News Tonight, Los Angeles Times, CBS News, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, TIME, Newsweek, The Economist & ABC News "NIGHTLINE" and Meet The Press on NBC News (and many more worldwide).
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