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Akbar Ahmed

Akbar Ahmed is the Ibn Khaldun chair of Islamic studies at American Univerity in Washington, DC. He has also taught at Princeton, Harvard, and Cambridge Universities. Formerly, he was the Pakistan High Commissioner (ambassador) to the UK and Ireland. His most recent book is Journey into Islam: The Crisis of Globalization (2011)

May 2013

  • Anti-drone protesters hold signs before the start of the Senate intelligence committee hearing on the nomination of John Brennan as CIA directorl.

    Dealing remote-control drone death, the US has lost its moral compass

    Akbar Ahmed and Lawrence Wilkerson

    Akbar Ahmed and Lawrence Wilkerson: Warfare by armchair warriors playing video games is little better than murder. This misguided policy is fueling anti-American hate

December 2011

  • Rohingya refugees in an encampment at a military base in Indonesia in 2009

    Cif belief
    Little help for the persecuted Rohingya of Burma

    Akbar Ahmed and Harrison Akins

    Akbar Ahmed and Harrison Akins: The Rohingya want only citizenship in their own land, and the dignity, human rights and opportunities that come with it

June 2010

  • Cif belief
    Journey into America, past and present

    Akbar Ahmed

    Akbar Ahmed: Travelling the US, I realised it was impossible to study Islam in America without first looking back to the Mayflower settlers

October 2009

  • America has yet to grasp the cost of losing in Afghanistan

    Akbar Ahmed
    Akbar Ahmed: McChrystal should be given the extra troops he demands. He can only succeed, however, with a major change in strategy
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