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SUMMARY: Islam in America: Challenges and Opportunities  - Professor Akbar
  Ahmed (American University\, CMJR)
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CONTACT:Alice Thompson
DESCRIPTION:On the 8th November CMJR Visiting Fellow Professor Akbar Ahmed
  will deliver a CMJR Highlight lecture entitled "Islam in America: Challen
 ges 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 authorit
 y on contemporary Islam” by the BBC. He has advised myriad US agencies a
 nd organizations on Islam and foreign policy and is the current Ibn Khaldu
 n Chair of Islamic Studies at American University in Washington DC\; the F
 irst Distinguished Chair of Middle East and Islamic Studies at the US Nava
 l Academy in Annapolis\; and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings 
 Institution.
LOCATION:Garden Room\, Library Building\, St. Edmunds College
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