Unique in their ability to enlighten audiences about the issues and challenges facing the worldwide Muslim community, American Program Bureau's speakers on Islam provide insightful commentary on this globally influential religion. Featuring highly visible activists, writers, scholars, and politicians, these keynote speakers spread a greater understanding of one of the world's most dominant belief systems.
Rami George Khouri
Khouri knows the Middle East like few other journalists. As the Editor-at-Large of The Daily Star in Beirut, Lebanon, he reports from ground zero of the conflict as it unfolds. A Palestinian-Jordanian, educated in both the Middle East and the US, he is a widely respected international political columnist. He ...
Azadeh Moaveni
In suburban America, she lived in two worlds. At home, she was the daughter of the Iranian exile community, serving tea, clinging to tradition, and dreaming of Tehran. Outside, she was a California girl who practiced yoga and listened to Madonna. For years, she ignored the tense standoff between her two cultures. But ...
Hussein Hassouna
Having been involved in countless diplomatic negotiations, and contributed to the delegation that led to the signing of the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty, there are no other speakers available today who can address issues of the Middle East with the same insight, experience, and knowledge as Ambassador Hassouna.
Shirin Ebadi
An extraordinary woman of many firsts, Iranian lawyer and activist Ebadi has made history as the first Muslim to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for her courageous defense of human rights in Iran. One of the most intelligent, passionate, and respected voices of dissent from within this complex nation, she speaks to the world ...
Asra Nomani
The author of the critically-acclaimed Standing Alone in Mecca: An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islam, she is a former Wall Street Journal correspondent, and friend of Daniel Pearl. Her character figures prominently in A Mighty Heart, the film based on the life and death of Pearl at the ...
Maajid Nawaz
Maajid Nawaz is a former member of the Islamic political group Hizb ut-Tahrir, and the co-founder and executive director of Quilliam, the world's first counter-extremism think tank. He is also the co-founder of Khudi, a counter-extremism social movement working towards the promotion of social democratic change in Pakistan.
Robin Wright
An accomplished journalist foreign affairs speaker, Robin Wright has reported from more than 140 countries on six continents for The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Sunday Times of London, CBS News and The Christian Science Monitor. She has also written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic ...
Mahathir Bin Mohamad
Mahathir Bin Mohamad, known to many as Dr. M, was the Malaysian Prime Minister from 1981-2003. He is credited as being the figure who engineered Malaysia’s rapid modernism and swift growth of prosperity and is an expert on Asian culture and global development.
Zainab Al-Suwaij
She is the co-founder and Executive Director of the American Islamic Congress (AIC), a nonprofit established in the wake of the September 11 attacks to build interfaith understanding; mobilize a moderate voice in the American Muslim community; and promote civil rights in the Muslim world.
Rashid Khalidi
Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Chair in Arab Studies at Columbia University. Khalidi is past President of the Middle East Studies Association, and is President of the American Committee on Jerusalem, and editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies.Khalidi has written numerous books including The Iron Cage: The Story ...
James Zogby
James J. Zogby is founder and president of the Arab American Institute (AAI), a Washington, DC-based organization which serves as the political and policy research arm of the Arab American community. Since 1985, Zogby and AAI have led Arab American efforts to secure political empowerment in the US. Through voter ...
Jytte Klausen
Jytte Klausen is a Professor of Comparative Politics and author of The Cartoons That Shook the World. In her book Klausen examines the Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad and the worldwide protests that followed their publication. She is an expert keynote speaker on Middle Eastern culture and Islam, and ...
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