Dr. Akbar S. Ahmed Biography

Ambassador Akbar Ahmed now holds the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University in Washington, D.C. & Brookings Institution Nonresident Senior Fellow He is a Visiting Professor and the First Distinguished Chair of Middle East & Islamic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, and has taught at Princeton, Harvard, and Cambridge Universities. The BBC has dubbed him "the world's foremost authority on modern Islam." He has been interviewed on CNN, NPR, BBC, and Al-Jazeera, and has appeared on Oprah numerous times. He has also featured on The Daily Show and Nickelodeon. Ambassador Ahmed was the Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professor at Cambridge University and a Visiting Fellow at Jesus College for the autumn term of 2012. Ahmed served as Pakistan's High Commissioner (Ambassador) to the United Kingdom and Ireland. He is the author of several award-winning books, including Discovering Islam, which inspired a six-part BBC TV series called Living Islam; the critically acclaimed Journey into Islam: The Crisis of Globalization; Suspended Somewhere Between, a book of verse; and Journey into America: The Challenge of Islam, which culminated in the full-length documentary Journey into America and won t Two of his books were reprinted in 2011 as part of the Routledge Revivals series, which aims to “restore to print books by some of the most influential academic scholars of the last 120 years.” In February 2013, Ahmed completed The Thistle and the Drone: How America's War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Islam, which was published by Brookings Institution Press.

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