Forum Agenda and Participant Biographies - Brookings Institution

young American rabbis, priests, and pastors. Previously
he was the Vice President of the One Nation Foundation
and taught at Georgetown University. Madhany
is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations,
a member of the Pacific Council on International
Policy, and a Senior Fellow at the Homeland Security
Policy Institute at George Washington University, and
serves as an advisor for the Stanford University Abbasi
Program in Islamic Studies. In 2008, Madhany
co-authored, with Rashad Hussain, a Brookings Project
on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World analysis
paper entitled, “Reformulating the Battle of Ideas:
Understanding the Role of Islam in Counterterrorism
Policy.” He holds graduate degrees from Harvard,
Georgetown, and the University of Chicago.
Mohamed Magid
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Mohamed Magid is a board member
of Muflehun and the President
of the Islamic Society of North
America. He is also the Executive
Director of the All Dulles
Area Muslim Society, where he
has helped establish exemplary religious services for
Islamic communities across the nation. He has a long
history of commitment to public service through
organizations such as The Peaceful Families Project,
Annual Twinning of Mosques and Synagogues, Fairfax
Faith Communities in Action, Interfaith Conference
of Metropolitan Washington Assembly, and the
Buxton Interfaith Initiative. Part of his work with the
Buxton Interfaith Initiative included forging a partnership
with Rabbi Robert Nosanchuk, then leader of
the Northern Virginia Hebrew Congregation in Reston.
Both men were recognized by the Washingtonian
as “2009’s Washingtonians of the Year” for building
bridges between their faith communities. He attained
his religious education in various Islamic disciplines as
a Resident Scholar at Al-Medina Institute.
Magomedkhan
Magomedkhanov
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Magomedkhan Magomedkhanov
is a Senior Researcher at the Institute
of History, Archeology,
and Ethnography at the Dagestan
Scientific Center of the Russian
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Academy of Science, where he has been since 1983.
He was at the Institute of Ethnography at the Academy
of Sciences of the USSR from 1980 until 1983,
and was a faculty member of Leningrad State University
from 1974 until 1979. Dr. Magomedkhanov’s research
interests include the revival of Islam in Russia,
contemporary ethnic and ethno-cultural problems in
Dagestan and the North Caucasus, and inter-group
consciousness and stereotyping, as well as issues pertaining
to multi-linguistic societies and assimilation.
Sanaa Makhlouf
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Sanaa Makhlouf is a Senior Instructor at the Department
of Rhetoric and Composition at the American
University in Cairo (AUC). She served as a member
of the Sunni delegation at the Interfaith Summit
Meeting and as coordinator for Al-Azhar Cambridge
Imam Program. She was a Visiting Professor at the
Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies
at Kyoto University. Makhlouf obtained her B.A. in
English and Comparative Literature, with Highest
Honors, from AUC, her M.A. in Early Islamic History
from the Arabic Studies Department at AUC,
and a second M.A. in Muslim Political Philosophy
from Harvard University. She is currently writing her
Ph.D. dissertation, “Shades of Tolerance: An Examination
of the Spiritual Writings of al-Amir ‘Abd al-
Qadir al-Jaza’iri,” in the Department of Near Eastern
Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University.
Muddassar Malik
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Muddassar Malik is Co-Founder
and Executive Vice Chairman of
BMA Capital, and serves as CEO
of BMA Funds. Over his twentyyear
career in Pakistan’s financial
markets, he has helped build and
manage Pakistan’s most successful investment banking
firm. BMA launched Pakistan’s first open end country
fund and the Pakistan Opportunities Fund, and was
awarded Euromoney’s Excellence Award for being Pakistan’s
No.1 Investment Banking Firm. Malik is a member
of the Young Presidents’ Organization and has participated
in the World Economic Forum. He has supported
the MIT Enterprise Forum and is a Trustee for
i-Care, Pakistan’s first donor-advised charity foundation.
He received a B.Sc. with honors in Economics, an