Akbar Ahmed

Akbar Ahmed is the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University and a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution. He has taught at Princeton, Harvard, and Cambridge Universities and is former high commissioner of Pakistan to Great Britain. His many books include After Terror: Promoting Dialogue among Civilizations, with Brian Forst (Polity, 2005), Islam under Siege: Living Dangerously in a Post-Honour World (Polity, 2003) and Discovering Islam: Making Sense of Muslim History and Society (Routledge, 2002).